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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... -
Examining the Nature of a Floodplain Using GIS Open Data: A Case Study of Jan...
Flooding is one of the rampant and persistent problems in many of the developing countries. Sustainable and innovative actions are needed to address the continuously increasing... -
Analyzing Spatial and Non-Spatial Factors That Influence Educational Quality ...
Education is the most powerful instrument to transform socioeconomic status of given society. However,education will be only more effective when its quality is sustained.... -
Land Use Land Cover Change Analysis Using Geospatial Tools in Case of Asayita...
Land use land cover change is a complex matter, which is caused by numerous biophysical, socioeconomical and institutional factors. The main objective of this study was to... -
Using Geospatial Techniques in the Selection of Potential Ecotourism Sites in...
Ecotourism is expressed as when tourists are attracted to a given geographic area (i.e. space) which has its own available natural, environmental, and socioeconomic resources by... -
Assessing Habitat Quality of the Mountain Nyala Tragelaphus Buxtoni in the Ba...
Populations of the endangered mountain nyala Tragelaphus buxtoni are significantly threatened by the loss of critical habitat. Population estimates are tentative, and... -
Investigation of Groundwater Potential Zone Using Geospatial Technology in Ba...
Geospatial technology has been done to identify spatially the extents of highly suitable and moderately suitable areas for groundwater demarcation. Several input... -
Geospatial Approach for Grevy’s Zebra Suitable Habitat Analysis, Allidegi Wil...
Maps of species distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management, and conservation planning. Currently natural... -
Groundwater Potential Mapping Using Geospatial Techniques: A Case Study of Dh...
The objective of this paper is to exploit the potential application of weighted index overlay analysis for assessing groundwater potential mapping at Dhungeta-Ramis sub-basin,... -
What has driven deforestation in developing countries since the 2000s? Eviden...
Using newly-released and globally available high resolution remote sensing data on forest loss, we update the assessment of the crosscountry determinants of deforestation in... -
Deep Learning Classification of Land Cover and Crop Types Using Remote Sensin...
Deep learning (DL) is a powerful state-of-the-art technique for image processing including remote sensing (RS) images. This letter describes a multilevel DL architecture that... -
Global Nighttime Light Change from 1992 to 2017: Brighter and More Uniform
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...