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Nighttime light data reveal how flood protection shapes human proximity to ri...
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... -
Correlations between Urbanization and Vegetation Degradation across the World...
Changes in biodiversity owing to vegetation degradation resulting from widespread urbanization demands serious attention. However, the connection between vegetation degradation... -
A time series of urban extent in China using DSMP/OLS nighttime light data
Urban extent data play an important role in urban management and urban studies, such as monitoring the process of urbanization and changes in the spatial configuration of urban... -
Using luminosity data as a proxy for economic statistics
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... -
Malaria Hazard and Risk Analysis Using Geospatial Techniques in the Case of S...
Malaria is an epidemic disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium and transmitted using the chew of infected female mosquitoes of the species Anopheles. The... -
Monitoring Urban Growth and Land Use/ Cover Changes Using Remote Sensing and ...
Urbanization has a pivotal role to play on land use land cover changes and ecological degradation, in return with some socioeconomic benefits. Hence, it is important to have... -
Flood Forecasting and Stream Flow Simulation of the Upper Awash River Basin, ...
The Geospatial Stream Flow Model (GeoSFM) has been widely applied in data scarce regions for flood forecasting and streamflow simulation with remotely acquired data. GeoSFM was... -
Tracking Electrification in Vietnam Using Nighttime Lights
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... -
Assessment of Land Use and Land Cover Change Using GIS and Remote Sensing Tec...
The surface of the earth is undergoing rapid land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes due to various socioeconomic activities and natural phenomena. The main aim of this study was to... -
Evaluating urban expansion and land use change in Shijiazhuang, China, by usi...
This paper presents an integrated study of urbanization trends in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province of China, by using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing.... -
Evaluating the Utility of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Retrievals for Operat...
Soil moisture is a fundamental data source used by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) to monitor crop growth... -
Grassland degradation in Northern Tibet based on remote sensing data
This study selected vegetation cover as the main evaluation index, calculated the grassland degradation index (GDI) and established the remote sensing monitoring and evaluation... -
Information Extraction From Remote Sensing Images for Flood Monitoring and Da...
Satellite remote sensing missions devoted to Earth observation (EO) currently offer a unique capability to monitor the evolution of the Earth's surface by providing temporally... -
Evaluation of Drought Indices Based on Thermal Remote Sensing of Evapotranspi...
The reliability of standard meteorological drought indices based on measurements of precipitation is limited by the spatial distribution and quality of currently available... -
Remote sensing monitoring of multi-scale watersheds impermeability for urban ...
Urban impervious surface coverage is an important parameter to understand effects of hydro-environment on the process of urbanization. Impervious surfaces have altered urban... -
Quantitative estimation of urbanization dynamics using time series of DMSP/OL...
Urbanization process involving increased population size, spatially extended land cover and intensified economic activity plays a substantial role in anthropogenic environment... -
Improved Estimates of Using Luminosity as a Proxy for Economic Statistics: Ne...
Previous work has analyzed whether luminosity data contain useful information for estimating economic output and concluded that there was significant promise for regions with... -
The Night Light Development Index (NLDI): a spatially explicit measure of hum...
We have developed a satellite data derived ''Night Light Development Index'' (NLDI) as a simple, objective, spatially explicit and globally available empirical measurement of... -
From wealth to health: modelling the distribution of income per capita at the...
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... -
UAV-BASED REMOTE SENSING OF LANDSLIDES
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with digital compact cameras can be used to map landslides quickly and at a high ground resolution. Images taken by a radio-controlled...