Solar Panels on Historic Roofs? A Digital Tool for Assessing Sensitive Roof Areas
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Date
2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
The approval of solar installations on the roofs of listed buildings is a challenge that requires extensive knowledge of the building's roofing materiality, construction and cultural significance. The Lower Saxony State Office for Heritage Preservation (NLD) is leading an interdisciplinary research project with the Institute for Geodesy and Photogrammetry at the Technische Universtität Braunschweig (IGP) to develop a Lower Saxony-wide heritage roof cadastre which enables an initial assessment of the suitability of roofs. The project focuses on creating tools that analyze and evaluate roofs based on their solar potential, roof material, geometry, and visibility in public space. The results can be made publicly accessible by integration into Lower Saxony's geographic information system. This should assist local preservation authorities and those involved in planning to ensure an appropriate and sustainable development of listed buildings in the future.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:dh.20253354,
booktitle = {Digital Heritage},
editor = {Campana, Stefano and Ferdani, Daniele and Graf, Holger and Guidi, Gabriele and Hegarty, Zackary and Pescarin, Sofia and Remondino, Fabio},
title = {{Solar Panels on Historic Roofs? A Digital Tool for Assessing Sensitive Roof Areas}},
author = {Loeper, Yasmin and Palmen, Christoph and Gerke, Markus},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-277-6},
DOI = {10.2312/dh.20253354}
}