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How To Use Indian Wind Solar Atlas Help

The document provides instructions for how to access and use the Indian Wind & Solar Atlas. It describes how to access the atlas online, install the required Silverlight plugin, view available wind and solar map layers, zoom and pan around the map, view location-specific data points, search for locations, and bookmark frequently used areas. Key features of the atlas like viewing wind speed, power density, capacity utilization factor, and solar radiation data at 500m x 500m resolution across India are also summarized.

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How To Use Indian Wind Solar Atlas Help

The document provides instructions for how to access and use the Indian Wind & Solar Atlas. It describes how to access the atlas online, install the required Silverlight plugin, view available wind and solar map layers, zoom and pan around the map, view location-specific data points, search for locations, and bookmark frequently used areas. Key features of the atlas like viewing wind speed, power density, capacity utilization factor, and solar radiation data at 500m x 500m resolution across India are also summarized.

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HOW TO USE THE INDIAN WIND & SOLAR ATLAS

The Indian Wind & Solar Atlas can be accessed directly using the URL
http://www.niwe.res.in/index_map.php or by navigating through NIWE web site
www.niwe.res.in  Departments  Wind Resource Assessment  Wind Power Potential at
100m agl link and clicking on the map shown in the page or through www.niwe.res.in 
Departments  Solar Radiation Resource Assessment  Indian Solar Radiation Atlas link
(preferably via Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browser)

At present the Atlas shows long term annual average for Wind (CUF %, WPD, Wind Speed) at
100m agl and Solar (GHI/DNI/DHI) resources at ground level at 500m x 500m resolution across
the country (The actual Solar Atlas has been prepared at 3 km x 3 km grid and re-sized to
500m x 500m grid).

On clicking the link for the Indian Wind & Solar Atlas page, you will be prompted to validate a
Captcha. Upon Captcha validation, when accessing the Atlas for the first time, you will be
prompted to install the Microsoft Silverlight plugin if your browser does not have that installed
already. You will not encounter this prompt from the next time you access this page.

Figure A : Prompt for Silverlight Install – Click now to install

Please wait till the Download and installation is complete. Once installation is over, the page will
prompt you to Activate Silverlight – Click Activate Silverlight and choose “Allow and Remember”
and wait for a few minutes for the page to load. If the page does not load automatically, please
click the refresh button on the browser.
You will now see the Atlas frame downloading and the viewer getting initialized (refer Figure B),
please wait for a few seconds at this point for the Atlas to load.

Figure B : Microsoft Silverlight Viewer getting initialized to load the Indian Wind & Solar Atlas – hold for a few seconds here.

On successful load, the Indian Wind & Solar Atlas will be displayed as in Figure 1 below. There
are two panes in the screen - the left pane shows the map and the right pane shows the Map
Contents.

Figure 1: View of Indian Wind & Solar Atlas in Mozilla FireFox Browser.

The Map Contents consists of 5 Layers – Wind (Wind Speed, Wind Power Density, and Capacity
Utilization Factor – in ranges), three layers of Solar data namely GHI, DNI and DHI and finally a
combination of Wind and Solar Data. The required Layer can be Selected/De-Selected using the
Check Mark against each of them as shown in Figure 2 (a) and Figure 2 (b) below based on
which Map on the left pane is plotted.

Figure 2 (a): Map Contents with Wind Data Selected. Figure 2 (b): Map Contents with Solar GHI Selected.

Note: If more than one Layer is selected in the Map Contents, The Map will be shown with the
Layer appearing FIRST from the top in the Contents Table i.e Wind Atlas will be shown if both
Wind Atlas and Solar GHI are selected together.

To View the Scale/Legend for the plotted Graph, Select the parameters (eg. Wind Atlas) from
the map content and expand the bullet/arrow as shown in Figure 3 below:

Figure 3: Scale /Legends for the Wind Atlas shown in the right pane in expanded mode.
You may zoom into the map either by continuing to click on the Map until the area of interest is
shown or by using the Slider along with the + and - symbols at the bottom of the Graph
highlighted in Red Colour in Figure 4 below. You may also move/pan to other areas by simply
clicking and dragging the map in any direction or by using the Pan Arrows (highlighted in blue
in Figure 4 below).

Figure 4: Zoom Slider (highlighted in Red), Pan Arrows (blue circle) at the bottom of the Atlas

At zoomed in state, you will notice a square grid appearing in the Map across the country. Each
of the Cell in this grid represents an area of 500m x 500 m. On clicking on any cell in the grid a
Pop-up window will open showing the values for selected Layer along with the cell’s latitude,
longitude, administrative details like district, taluk, areas etc as shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6
below.
Figure 5 : Atlas with the Pop-up window showing the CUF, Wind Power Density and Wind Speed in Chennai

Figure 6 : Atlas with the Pop-up window showing the Solar GHI value along with other details in Thiruvallur Dist.

The Map can be zoomed in upto Village and Street levels (refer Figure 7).
Figure 7: Zoomed in Map showing Street names along with Door Number of Houses.

On the extreme top right hand side (home page), the following icons can be seen: map
contents, search, base map and book mark (refer Figure 8)

Figure 8: The tools menu on the top right side of the Atlas is highlighted in red colour.

Search- Type the name of the location of interest in the search bar. The results are listed in the
right pane. Clicking a search result will take you to the corresponding location on the map in the
left pane – the spot is also highlighted using a Red Circle (refer Figure 9).
Figure 9 : Solar Atlas showing the Search Results.

The atlas can be viewed on different base map (streets, topographic, imagery, shaded relief) by
selecting the base map icon (refer Figure 10 below).

Figure 10: Base Maps can be changed from the Tools menu at the top right corner.

Frequently used locations can be saved for ready navigation as a Bookmark (refer Figure 11
below)
Figure 11: Bookmarked Locations for quick navigation

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