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Mangrove conversion and aquaculture development in Vietnam: A remote sensing-...
Remote sensing data have been proposed as a potential tool for monitoring environmental treaties. However, to date, satellite images have been used primarily for visualization,... -
Land use and land cover change in Greater Dhaka, Bangladesh: Using remote sen...
This study evaluates land use/cover changes and urban expansion in Greater Dhaka,Bangladesh, between 1975 and 2003 using satellite images and socio-economic data.Spatial and... -
Irrigation Performance Assessment Using Satellite Remote Sensing: Insights fr...
The use of remote sensing data in design, monitoring, and evaluation of irrigation systems is becoming popular due to rapid advances in remote sensing technology, ease of access... -
Monitoring Economic Development from Space: Using Nighttime Light and Land Co...
This study demonstrates estimations of economic activities on global, national, and subnational levels using remote sensing data, with a focus on developing economies. It... -
Why VIIRS data are superior to DMSP for mapping nighttime lights?
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... -
Assessing the impact of urban land development on net primary productivity in...
The southeastern United States (SE-US) has undergone one of the highest rates of landscape changes in the country due to changing demographics and land use practices over the... -
Evaluation of Commercially Available Remote Sensors for Highway Bridge Condit...
Improving transportation infrastructure inspection methods and the ability to assess conditions of bridges has become a priority in recent years as the transportation... -
Nighttime lights as a proxy for Human Development at the local level
Nighttime lights, calculated from weather satellite recordings, are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity or economic development in... -
A sharper image? Estimates of the precision of nighttime lights as a proxy fo...
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... -
Using geographical information systems in epidemiology: mapping & analyzing o...
Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan is attracting families due to safety, lush green scenery and good infrastructure. Almost 2 million people are living in this city, and... -
Remote sensing based deforestation analysis in Mahanadi and Brahmaputra river...
Land use and land cover (LULC) change has been recognized as a key driver of global climate change by influencing land surface processes. Being in constant change, river basins... -
Glacier Remote Sensing Using Sentinel-2. Part II: Mapping Glacier Extents and...
Mapping of glacier extents from automated classification of optical satellite images has become a major application of the freely available images from Landsat. A widely applied... -
Detecting Urban Markets With Satellite Imagery: An Application To India
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... -
Assessing OpenStreetMap Completeness for Management of Natural Disaster by Me...
Over the last few decades, many countries, especially islands in the Caribbean, have been challenged by the devastating consequences of natural disasters, which pose a... -
The impact of urban growth on agricultural and rural non-farm growth in Kenya
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... -
Do refugee camps help or hurt hosts? The case of Kakuma, Kenya
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... -
Detecting Zimbabwe’s Decadal Economic Decline Using Nighttime Light Imagery
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... -
Using remotely sensed night-time light as a proxy for poverty in Africa
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... -
Normalization of time series DMSP-OLS nighttime light images for urban growth...
Previous studies demonstrated that DMSP-OLS stable nighttime light data are useful data source for delineating urban areas. However, the nighttime light data acquired in... -
Monitoring hourly night-time light by an unmanned aerial vehicle and its impl...
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...