6th training in solar radiation - 15-16-17-18-19 Jan. 2018 - Sophia antipolis, France | Last update: Jan. 2018 |
The training is full!
NB: the program has been updated. Please take a look.
Address: MINES ParisTech, 1 rue Claude Daunesse, 06904 Sophia Antipolis. Organize your trip
Program: updated program - program in PDF format
Lunches and catering fee: Access prices. Please note that your participation is validated as soon as your payment is received.
NB: A room has been booked for breaks and catering, where you will have the opportunity to display posters or flyers for your company / your project / your product. Feel free to bring any dissemination tool.
Lunches and catering fee
| Day | Price | | Monday - optional | 30 € | | Thuesday | 60 € | | Wednesday | 60 € | | Thursday | 60 € | | Friday (master class) - optional | 260 € (160 € for students) | |
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Teachers
- Pr. Philippe Blanc, MINES ParisTech
- Dr. Mathilde Marchand, Transvalor S.A.
- Pr. Thierry Ranchin, MINES ParisTech
- Dr. Yves-Marie Saint Drenan, MINES ParisTech
- Amaury Schoenaeur, CEPAC
- Dr. Claire Thomas, Transvalor S.A.
- Benoit Tournadre, MINES ParisTech
- Melodie Trolliet, MINES ParisTech
- Pr. Lucien Wald, MINES ParisTech
- Dr. Etienne Wey, Transvalor S.A.
Updated Program
Day 0 Monday 15th January, 2018 (OPTIONAL)
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Welcome coffee - Registration | | 14:30 – 16:30 | Basics in solar radiation - Practical work : sun position | Pr P. Blanc | | 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break | | 17:00 – 18:00 | Basics in GIS | Pr T. Ranchin | | 18:00 | Adjourn day | |
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Day 1 Tuesday 16th January 2018
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome coffee - Registration | | 09:00 – 10:30 | Presentation of MINES ParisTech and Transvalor - "Ice breaker" – 5 min introduction of posters of OIE PhD students – Presentation of the mind map that they will be able to fill all training long. | All the teachers + PhD students + all the Participants | | 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 11:00 – 12:00 | Presentation of SoDa, CAMS services | Dr Mathilde Marchand | | 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | | 14:00 – 15:30 | Site prospection – Atlas IRENA, Atlas PACA, Urban solar cadasters | Dr Etienne Wey | | 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 16:00 – 17:00 | In-situ pyranometric measurements | Pr Philippe Blanc | | 17:00 – 17:30 | Using existing in-situ pyranometric measurements | | 17:30 – 18:00 | Using existing measuring stations from a nearby network | | 18:00 | Adjourn day | |
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Day 2 Wednesday 17th January, 2018
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Practical work: Analyze cases of measurement failures | Lucien Wald, Philippe Blanc, Yves-Marie Saint-Drenan, Benoit Tournadre, Claire Thomas, Mathilde Marchand, Etienne Wey, Loic Vallance | | 10:00 – 10:30 | Supplementing ground data with meteorological analyses and satellite data – part 1 | Pr Lucien Wald | | 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break – poster session | | 11:00 – 11:30 | Supplementing ground data with meteorological analyses and satellite data – part 2 | Dr Claire Thomas | | 11:30 – 12:00 | Limitations of satellite-based methods | Dr Claire Thomas | | 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch | | 14:00 – 15:00 | SoDa, HelioClim and Heliosat-2, CAMS radiation and CAMS McClear services | Dr Claire Thomas | | 15:00 – 15:30 | Protocol for validating estimates of solar radiation from meteorological analyses or satellite images | Pr Lucien Wald | | 15:30 – 16:00 | Calibration of a long term satellite irradiation time series | Dr Etienne Wey | | 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break – poster session | | 16:30 – 17:00 | Analyze of long term solar resource – variability and representativeness (TMY) | Pr Philippe Blanc | | 17:00 | Adjourn day | |
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Day 3 Thursday 18th January, 2018
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Monitoring an installation with satellite irradiation data: the challenge to deal with high resolution spatial and temporal variability | Pr Philippe Blanc | | 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break – poster session | | 10:30 – 11:30 | Introduction to forecast methodologies | Dr Yves-Marie Saint Drenan | | 11:30 – 12:15 | Bank and projects financing – Questions and answers | Amaury Schoenaeur | | 12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch | | 14:00 – 15:30 | Presentation of our innovations: who in the assistance would be interested in becoming a panel tester for each presented service ? | Dr Claire Thomas | | 15:30 – 16:30 | Round table: debriefing of the mind map: collect recommendations from attendees to improve the training. Distribution of questionnaires and feedback | All the Participants | | 16:30 | Adjourn day | |
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Day 4 Friday 19th January, 2018 (optional) - Parallel practical work sessions
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Dr Etienne Wey | 
Pr Philippe Blanc | | 09:00 – 12:30 | QGIS discovery and use | Resource assessment / management of technical data in Maltab (Prerequisite: MatLab knowledge) | | 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | | 14:00 – 16:00 | QGIS discovery and use | Resource assessment / management of technical data in Maltab (Prerequisite: MatLab knowledge) | | 16:00 | Adjourn day | |
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Organize your trip
Hotels
Hotel Etoile (Antibes): Approx. 20 rooms are proposed to the attendees with a nice discount. Just tell the hotel that you plan to attend our solar training.
The price of the room is 55.10 € + 0.90 € (tourist tax) and for the breakfast is 7.5 €.
Alternative hotels in Antibes: Hotel Modern, and Le Relais du Postillon
Hotels nearby MINES ParisTech: Hotel Omega, Hotel IBIS, Hotel Mercure, Sophia Country Club
Buses
- from Nice Airport to Sophia "Express": bus 230, 1.50 €. Bus stops are "Terminal 1 Nice airport (passage de la Caravelle, check the illustration on our contact page)" in Nice and "Place Sophie Lafitte" in Sophia Antipolis.
- from Nice Airport to Antibes "Express": bus 250, 10 € one way and 15 € round trip. From "Terminal 1" to Antibes.
- from Nice Airport to Antibes ("slow bus" :) ): bus 200, 1.50 € (price Sep. 2017). Bus stops are "Terminal 1 Nice airport (passage de la Caravelle)" in Nice and "Place du Général de Gaulle" in Antibes. Be careful, this bus is slow and stops everywhere.
- from Antibes to MINES ParisTech Sophia: bus 1 or 100, 1.50 € (price Sept. 2017).
