{"id":41394,"date":"2026-06-17T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/we-mapped-500k-rooftop-pv-installations-across-france-with-deep-learning-model-weights-and-dataset-now-fully-open\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:27:04","slug":"we-mapped-500k-rooftop-pv-installations-across-france-with-deep-learning-model-weights-and-dataset-now-fully-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/we-mapped-500k-rooftop-pv-installations-across-france-with-deep-learning-model-weights-and-dataset-now-fully-open\/","title":{"rendered":"We Mapped ~500k Rooftop PV Installations Across France With Deep Learning \u2014 Model, Weights, And Dataset Now Fully Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>**Self-promotion**<\/p>\n<p>Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/remotesensing\">r\/remotesensing<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sharing DeepPVMapper, an open-source tool we developed to detect and characterize rooftop PV systems from very high-resolution aerial imagery (IGN orthophotos, 20cm).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s available:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Model weights on HuggingFace: <a href=\"http:\/\/huggingface.co\/gabrielkasmi\/bdappv-models\">huggingface.co\/gabrielkasmi\/bdappv-models<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Interactive demo (no GPU, ~1 min\/km\u00b2): <a href=\"http:\/\/huggingface.co\/spaces\/gabrielkasmi\/deeppvmapper\">huggingface.co\/spaces\/gabrielkasmi\/deeppvmapper<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Training dataset (45k+ images, segmentation masks): <a href=\"http:\/\/huggingface.co\/datasets\/gabrielkasmi\/bdappv\">huggingface.co\/datasets\/gabrielkasmi\/bdappv<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Full detections for France (~500k systems, GeoJSON): <a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/records\/19188878\">https:\/\/zenodo.org\/records\/19188878<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Code: <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/gabrielkasmi\/deeppvmapper\">github.com\/gabrielkasmi\/deeppvmapper<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What it does:<\/strong><br \/> Detects rooftop PV panels and estimates surface area, installed capacity, tilt and azimuth. Deployed at national scale across France \u2014 evaluation against official registries (RTE, RNI) revealed 10% missing capacity nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The repo has been refactored and is open to contributions. Happy to discuss methodology, limitations, or potential extensions.<\/p>\n<p>Project page: <a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielkasmi.github.io\/deeppvmapper\">gabrielkasmi.github.io\/deeppvmapper<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/SuperbUpstairs9825\"> \/u\/SuperbUpstairs9825 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1u8c3jl\/we_mapped_500k_rooftop_pv_installations_across\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1u8c3jl\/we_mapped_500k_rooftop_pv_installations_across\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41394 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41394' data-nonce='72e055e984' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41394 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41394 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Self-promotion** Hi r\/remotesensing, I&#8217;m sharing DeepPVMapper, an open-source tool we developed to detect and characterize rooftop PV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}