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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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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...