Table 2 Consistency of ChinaPV 2020 with existing PV database.

From: Vectorized solar photovoltaic installation dataset across China in 2015 and 2020

Database under evaluation

Reference database

Total Area of PV in Reference database (km2)

Overlapping Area (km2)

Overlapping Fraction

ChinaPV

PV_ESSD

2915.30

2417.94

82.94%

ChinaPV

PV_RSE

2898.21

2185.82

75.42%

ChinaPV

PV_SD

1936.58

1515.99

78.28%

PV_RSE

PV_ESSD

2915.30

2297.29

78.80%

PV_SD

PV_ESSD

2915.30

1540.20

52.83%