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Research Article

Thermal Image Analysis of Photovoltaic Panel for Condition Monitoring Using Hybrid Thermal Pixel Counting Algorithm and XGBoost Classifier

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Received 17 May 2023, Accepted 08 Oct 2023, Published online: 19 Nov 2023

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