Coelho, João PauloCunha, José BoaventuraOliveira, Paulo de Moura2010-11-092010-11-092001Coelho, João; Cunha, José; Oliveira, Paulo (2001)- Solar radiation prediction methods applied to improve greenhouse climate control. In World Congress of Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources. Iguaçu Falls, Brasil. p. 154-160http://hdl.handle.net/10198/2773In this paper, deterministic and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)based techniques are applied to generate solar radiation forecast with the purpose of being incorporateed within a greenhouse predictive control strategy. These predictions are essential to estimate heat load flunctions in the greenhouse caused by high frequency solar radiation changes, and so to improve ventilation and heating computation requeriments for the greenhouse.engTime series predictionHorticultureArtificial neural networksLinear regressionconference object