10.11588/data/QNA02BBechtold, SebastianSebastianBechtold3D Geospatial Data Processing Group, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, GermanyHöfle, BernhardBernhardHöfle3D Geospatial Data Processing Group, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, GermanyVOSTOK - The Voxel Octree Solar ToolkitheiDATA2020Earth and Environmental Sciencessolar potential3D point cloudraycastingVOSTOKHöfle, BernhardBernhardHöfle3D Geospatial Data Processing Group, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, GermanyBechtold, SebastianSebastianBechtoldHöfle, BernhardBernhardHöfle3D Geospatial Data Processing Group, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Germany2020-03-102020-03-10C++ source code, binaries (Windows and Linux)10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.07.084978-3-95606-150-910.3390/rs303065010.3390/s9070524113835159956text/markdownapplication/zip1.0VOSTOK is a command-line tool to compute a detailed model of incoming solar radiation distribution on a patch of land, including structures like buildings and vegetation, represented by a 3D point cloud data set. The program is written in C++ and makes use of the "SOLPOS.H" library (<a href="http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/codesandalgorithms/solpos/">http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/codesandalgorithms/solpos/</a>) to compute the angular position of the sun in the sky for a given location on Earth and a given moment in time. VOSTOK can use any 3D point cloud (e.g. LIDAR, SfM) as XYZ-locations (with surface normal vector information) for which the incoming sunlight shall be computed (the computation points).The latest source code is available on github: <a href="https://github.com/GIScience/vostok">https://github.com/GIScience/vostok</a>.Heidelberg