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...
Steeve Ebener, Christopher Murray, Ajay Tandon, Christopher C Elvidge
Sub-national figures providing information about the wealth of the population are useful in defining the spatial distribution of both economic activity and poverty within any...
This study demonstrates estimations of economic activities on global, national, and subnational levels using remote sensing data, with a focus on developing economies. It...
Christopher D. Elvidge, Kimberly Baugh, Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng Chi Hsu
For more than forty years the U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) has been the only system collecting
global low...
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...
Kathryn Baragwanath Vogel, Ran Goldblatt, Gordon H. Hanson, Amit K. Khandelwal
We propose a methodology for defining urban markets based on built-up land-cover classified
from daytime satellite imagery. Compared to markets defined using minimum thresholds...
Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Timothy Johnson, Paul Chimuka Samboko, Liangzhi You
To estimate the impact of urban growth on agricultural and rural nonfarm income growth we
develop an urban gravity variable that reflects the economic activity of a city– total...
Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Sarah Walker, Anne Bartlett, Harun Onder & Apurva Sanghi
We combine nighttime lights data, official statistics, and new household survey data
from northern Kenya in order to assess the impact of long-term refugee camps on
host...
Zimbabwe’s economy declined between 2000 and 2009. This study detects the
economic decline in different regions of Zimbabwe using nighttime light imagery from the
Defense...
Abdisalan M Noor, Victor A Alegana, Peter W Gething, Andrew J Tatem & Robert W Snow
Population health is linked closely to poverty. To assess the effectiveness of health interventions it is critical to monitor the spatial and temporal changes in the health...
Satellite-observed night-time light in urban areas has been widely used as an indicator for socioeconomic development and light pollution. Up to present, the diurnal dynamics of...
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...
Paul Sutton, Dar Roberts, Chris Elvidge & Henk Meij
The striking apparent correlation between nighttime satellite imagery and human population density was explored for the continental United States. The nighttime stable-lights...
In early 2013, the first global Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) visible
infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS) nighttime light composite data were
released....
Radiance-calibrated DMSP-OLS nighttime lights data of China
acquired between March 1996 and January-February 1997
were evaluated for their potential as a source of population...