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Nighttime lights as a proxy for human development at the local level. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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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Extending the DMSP Nighttime Lights Time Series beyond 2013 [PDF]

open access: yesRemote 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Data collected by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) sensors have been archived and processed by the Earth Observation Group (EOG) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make ...
Feng Chi Hsu   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Analyzing the Sources and Variations of Nighttime Lights in Hong Kong from VIIRS Monthly Data [PDF]

open access: yesRemote Sensing
The long-term monitoring of nighttime lights is essential for understanding sources of light pollution. Nighttime lights observed in space are affected by atmospheric conditions as they transmit from the Earth surface through clouds and aerosols to the ...
Shengjie Liu   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

The Annual Cycling of Nighttime Lights in India [PDF]

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
India is known to have unstable power supply, and many locations show an annual cycle in VIIRS Nighttime Light (VNL). In this study, autocorrelation function (ACF) analysis is used to identify the annual cycling in VNL.
Fengchi Hsu   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

What Can We Learn from Nighttime Lights for Small Geographies? Measurement Errors and Heterogeneous Elasticities

open access: yesRemote 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.
Gordon McCord, Richard Bluhm
exaly   +3 more sources

Annual Time Series of Global VIIRS Nighttime Lights Derived from Monthly Averages: 2012 to 2019

open access: yesRemote 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 ...
Feng Chi Hsu   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Estimating Local Inequality from Nighttime Lights [PDF]

open access: yesRemote 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Assessing the Impact of the Built-Up Environment on Nighttime Lights in China

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2019
Figuring out the effect of the built-up environment on artificial light at night is essential for better understanding nighttime luminosity in both socioeconomic and ecological perspectives.
Haiming Qin   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

DMSP-OLS Radiance Calibrated Nighttime Lights Time Series with Intercalibration

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2015
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) stable lights products are made using operational OLS data collected at high gain settings, resulting in sensor saturation on brightly lit areas, such as city centers ...
Feng Chi Hsu   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

VIIRS Nighttime Lights in the Estimation of Cross-Sectional and Time-Series GDP

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2019
This study extends previous applications of DMSP OLS nighttime lights data to examine the usefulness of newer VIIRS lights in the estimation of economic activity.
Xi Chen, William D. Nordhaus
doaj   +2 more sources

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