Global Photovoltaic Solar Panel Dataset from 2019 to 2022

<p>Using Google Earth imagery and 2019-2022 Sentinel-2 datasets, we developed a two-stage classification framework to obtain the annual global dataset of solar photovoltaic panels at 20-meter resolution from 2019 to 2022.</p> <p>To classify the global solar photovoltaic panels, we applied the global zoning method of IPCC AR6 WGI to define the main-zoning, and used 4 degree &times; 4 degree grids to create the sub-zoning. Then, we extracted the solar photovoltaic panels in each sub-zoning, and stored the result data in TIFF format.</p> <p>The number of each file corresponds to the ID in the attribute table of the sub-zoning-ID file, and users can download and use the corresponding file based on the sub-zoning-ID. After the ID, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 respectively represent four years.</p> <p>The folder of the annual global PV dataset is named after the year, and each file is named as "sub zoning ID_year".</p>