Tracking Electrification in Vietnam Using Nighttime Lights [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2014 We report on a systematic ground-based validation of DMSP-OLS night lights imagery to detect rural electrification in Vietnam. Based on an original survey of village-level units in Vietnam, this study compares nighttime light output from the U.S.
Brian Min, Kwawu Mensan Gaba
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Indian economy and Nighttime Lights [PDF]
2021 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy (ICCIKE), 2021 Forecasting economic growth of India has been traditionally an uncertain exercise. The indicators and factors affecting economic structures and the variables required to model that captures the situation correctly is point of concern. Although the forecast should be specific to the country we are looking at however countries do have interlinkages among
Jeet Agnihotri, Subhankar Mishra
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Nighttime lights as a proxy for human development at the local level. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Nighttime lights, calculated from weather satellite recordings, are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity or economic development in subnational regions of developing countries where disaggregated data from statistical ...
Anna Bruederle, Roland Hodler
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What Can We Learn from Nighttime Lights for Small Geographies? Measurement Errors and Heterogeneous Elasticities [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2022 Nighttime lights are routinely used as a proxy for economic activity when official statistics are unavailable and are increasingly applied to study the effects of shocks or policy interventions at small geographic scales.
Richard Bluhm, Gordon C. McCord
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Estimating Local Inequality from Nighttime Lights [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 Economic inequality at the local level has been shown to be an important predictor of people’s political perceptions and preferences. However, research on these questions is hampered by the fact that local inequality is difficult to measure and ...
Nils B. Weidmann, Gerlinde Theunissen
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Dynamics and Spatial Distribution of Global Nighttime Lights [PDF]
EPJ Data Science, 2013 Using open source data, we observe the fascinating dynamics of nighttime light. Following a global economic regime shift, the planetary center of light can be seen moving eastwards at a pace of about 60 km per year.
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Associating nighttime lights with population health, with consideration of environmental and socio-economic confounders [PDF]
Discover Public HealthBackground The relationship between nighttime lights and human health is being discussed in a growing number of studies, with a vast majority of results supporting an association.
Yixi Zhang +6 more
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Changes in nighttime lights during COVID-19 lockdown over Delhi, India [PDF]
Environmental Resilience and Transformation in Times of COVID-19, 2021 Deep A, Gupta P.
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Tracking economic activity in response to the COVID-19 crisis using nighttime lights - The case of Morocco. [PDF]
Dev Eng, 2021 Roberts M.
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The Use of Nighttime Lights Data as a Proxy for Economic Variables
, 2015 The growing availability of free or inexpensive satellite imagery has inspired many researchers to investigate the use of earth observation data for monitoring economic activity around the world. One of the most popular earth observation data sets is the so-called nighttime lights from the ...
Douglas Addison, Benjamin Stewart
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