Natalie Ayers, with contributing author Emily Aiken
This tutorial will guide the user through the creation of population-weighted wealth maps and statistics for administrative areas of interest. After an explanation of...
"Jutta Lechterbeck, Kevan Edinborough, Tim Kerig, Ralph Fyfe, Neil Roberts, Stephen Shennan Stephen Shennan"
The transformation of natural landscapes in Middle Europe began in the Neolithic as a result of the introduction of food-producing economies. This paper examines the relation...
Johanna Mård, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Maurizio Mazzoleni
To understand the spatiotemporal changes of flood risk, we need to determine the way in which humans adapt
and respond to flood events. One adaptation option consists of...
One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of...
Previous work has analyzed whether luminosity data contain useful information for estimating economic output and concluded that there was significant promise for regions with...
C. D. Elvidge, K. E. Baugh, S. J. Anderson, P. C. Sutton, T. Ghosh
We have developed a satellite data derived ''Night Light Development Index'' (NLDI) as a simple, objective, spatially explicit and globally available empirical measurement of...
This study demonstrates estimations of economic activities on global, national, and subnational levels using remote sensing data, with a focus on developing economies. It...
Much aggregate social-science analysis relies upon the standard national income and product accounts as a source of economic data. These are recognized to be defective in many...
Nighttime light images record the brightness of the Earth surface, indicating the scope and intensity of human activities. However, there are few studies on the long-term...