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Using Nighttime Luminosity as a Proxy for Economic Growth in Africa: Is It a Bright Idea?
Managing Global Transitions, 2022 In this paper, we question whether night light luminosity data can be used as an alternative measure of GDP in 49 African countries. For this to be proven true, evidence of significant relationships between night light data and GDP time series variables
Nicolene Hamman, Andrew Phiri
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Cross-Sensor Nighttime Lights Image Calibration for DMSP/OLS and SNPP/VIIRS with Residual U-Net
Remote Sensing, 2021 Remote sensing of nighttime lights (NTL) is widely used in socio-economic studies of economic growth, urbanization, stability of power grid, environmental light pollution, pandemics and military conflicts.
Dmitry Nechaev +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2014 There exists a spatial mismatch between socioeconomic data, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and physical and environmental datasets. This study provides a dasymetric approach for GDP estimation at a fine scale by combining the Defense ...
Wenze Yue, Jiabin Gao, Xuchao Yang
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Detection of rural electrification in Africa using DMSP-OLS night lights imagery
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2013 We report on the first systematic ground-based validation of the US Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System DMSP-OLS night lights imagery to detect rural electrification in the developing world. Drawing upon a unique survey of villages in Senegal and Mali, this study compares night-time light output from the ...
Min, Brian +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Knowledge of the spatial pattern of the population is important. Census population data provide insufficient spatial information because they are released only for large geographic areas.
Mohammed Alahmadi +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2017 Nighttime light data derived from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) in conjunction with the Soumi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (NPP-VIIRS) possess great ...
Xiaobo Zhu +3 more
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Estimating offshore oil production using DMSP-OLS annual composites
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020 Abstract Offshore oil exploitation is expanding worldwide in response to the increasing demand for global energy. The long-term acquisition of information on offshore oil production is essential to solve geo-political conflicts and to control marine pollution.
Chao Sun +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2015 Nighttime light imagery offers a unique view of the Earth’s surface. In the past, the nighttime light data collected by the DMSP-OLS sensors have been used as an efficient means to correlate regional and global socio-economic activities.
Xin Jing +4 more
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Spatialization of electricity consumption of China using saturation-corrected DMSP-OLS data
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2014 Abstract Electricity is one of the most important components in energy consumption, which is directly related to economic growth, CO2 emission and global warming. This research intends to estimate spatial distribution of electricity consumption in China, the largest developing country, and analyze the temporal and spatial change of electricity ...
Xin Cao 0002 +3 more
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Night sky brightness at sites from DMSP-OLS satellite measurements [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2004 14 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, 17 june ...
Cinzano, P., Elvidge, C. D.
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