The Map BeneathPakistan's Solar Boom
PV Atlas finds every rooftop solar installation in Pakistan from satellite data — and the year it switched on.
A [National Solar] Inventory Already in Motion
PV Atlas is already detecting installations across real cities, real rooftops, and real grid demand.
Sources: Ember (2026), Ember Global Electricity Review (2025).
PV Atlas delivers a rooftop-level inventory of solar for the planners, utilities, and researchers that keep the grid running. From Karachi and Lahore to the smallest towns, our detection pipeline locates every installation — even those far smaller than a single satellite pixel — and dates the year each one appeared.
Grid Planning Needs a Real-World Solar Layer
OUR MISSION
Measure the Solar FleetNobody Can See.
We build open, reproducible tools that turn free satellite data into a complete map of Pakistan's distributed solar — so the grid can plan against the number it actually has.
Sub-Pixel Detection
We find rooftop arrays smaller than one satellite pixel, separating panel from roof in the data itself.
Dated Installations
Year-over-year satellite history reveals when each system switched on — not just where it is.
Built to Scale Nationally
From one city tile to the whole country, on commodity hardware, with open data throughout.
How PV Atlas Finds Solar
Four steps from open satellite data to a dated, rooftop-level inventory.
Sentinel Satellites
A full year of optical and radar passes over every 10 m of Pakistan.
Annual Embeddings
Each pixel is compressed into a 128-number signature of how it looks across the year.
Sub-Pixel Detection
A few labelled arrays are enough to search the whole country — and read the panel fraction inside each pixel.
Dated Inventory
Year-over-year signatures reveal the switch-on step. Every array located and dated, as open data.
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Build on the Solar Mapfor Pakistan's Grid
PV Atlas is already detecting installations across real cities, real rooftops, and real grid demand.