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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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Annual Time Series of Global VIIRS Nighttime Lights Derived from Monthly Averages: 2012 to 2019
Remote Sensing, 2021 A consistently processed annual global nighttime lights time series (2012–2019) was produced using monthly cloud-free radiance averages made from low light imaging day/night band (DNB) data collected by the NASA/NOAA Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer ...
Christopher D. Elvidge +4 more
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Extending the DMSP Nighttime Lights Time Series beyond 2013 [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 Data collected by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) sensors have been archived and processed by the Earth Observation Group (EOG) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make ...
Tilottama Ghosh +5 more
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Economic inequality and crime across cities in India: Evidence using nighttime lights data. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study investigates the relationship between economic inequality and crime rates across 49 Indian cities from 2016 to 2021. Given the limited availability of traditional economic indicators at the city level in India, we introduce a novel ...
Christopher Kuruvilla Mathen +3 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 The nighttime lights accurately and coherently depict how humans live. This study uses nighttime light measurements to quantify changes in nighttime lighting and refugee population in Ukraine before and after the war.
Chaoqing Huang +6 more
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Remote Sensing, 2017 Nighttime light data can characterize urbanization, economic development, population density, energy consumption and other human activities. Additionally, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are closely related to the scope and intensity of human activities ...
Xiwen Zhang +3 more
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Predicting economic activity using atmospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) satellite data: Evidence from local economic indicators in Japan. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAccurate and timely measurement of subnational economic activity is crucial for policymakers during economic crises, natural disasters and pandemics such as COVID-19.
Stefaniia Parubets, Hisahiro Naito
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Using Night Lights from Space to Assess Areas Impacted by the 2023 Turkey Earthquake
Remote Sensing, 2023 The 6 February 2023 earthquakes that hit south-eastern Turkey were amongst the deadliest in the past century. Here, we report the ability to map and quantify areas impacted by these earthquakes using changes in nighttime lights, as mapped by NASA’s VIIRS/
Noam Levin
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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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International Journal of Digital Earth, 2021 Exploring carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities is essential for urban energy conservation and resource management. Remotely sensed nighttime lights from the Suomi NPP-VIIRS provide spatial consistency in and a low-cost way of revealing ...
Kaifang Shi +4 more
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