Surface Solar Radiation Modeling from Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS Satellite Data

At present, estimating surface solar radiation by exploiting satellite data is a very promising method. Indeed, satellite observations provide an alternative means to derive solar radiation due to their spatially continuous observations for large areas. In the present work, we propose a method to estimate solar radiation at earth's ground using Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS data. This method will eventually allow us to create a space maps of the solar radiation distribution received on ground. The chosen study area is Oran (35° 42'23"N, 0° 34'43"W) in Algeria.