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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Nighttime lights"”.
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Sustainable infrastructure technologies: impact and policy
… This paper uses a novel application of satellite nighttime light data used as a proxy for energy consumption combined with data on geocoded locations of 15 renewable energy plants and Village Potential Statistics survey for Indonesia. I estimate a difference-in-difference model to compare the …
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Multisource Remote Sensing based Impervious Surface Mapping
… results. Registration of optical daytime and nighttime lights (NTL) data is developed in the first contribution. An impervious surface based optical-to-NTL image registration algorithm with iterative blooming effect reduction (IS_iBER) algorithm is proposed. This coarse-to-fine procedure …
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Using Multi-Source Data to Assess the Dynamics of Socioeconomic Development in Africa
… Program Operational Line System (DMSP-OLS) nighttime lights (NTL) data. However, the DMSP-OLS NTL data and the associated processing methods have limited their reliability and applicability for systematic measuring and mapping of socioeconomic development. This research utilizes Visible …
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Colonial Policy, Social Trust, and Economic Resilience: The Long-term Impacts of Imperial Russian Settlement in Southern Kazakhstan
… records, surveys, images shared on social media, nighttime lights satellite imagery, and interviews, I find that geographic patterns of social trust in southern Kazakhstan are linked to Imperial Russian policy decisions about colonial settlement. In Almaty oblast, where 19th and early 20th century …
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Understanding the Impacts of Extreme Weather on the Power Transmission Infrastructure: A Machine Learning Approach to Quantifying Risks and Enhancing Grid Resilience
… for forecasting power loss using satellite-based nighttime lights data, offering a valuable tool for regions where traditional outage information is limited. The study also quantifies the damage to transmission lines caused by Hurricane Maria and develops a methodology to assess the effectiveness …
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Essays in development economics
… in India over time, using satellite data on nighttime lights and historic maps. I propose an instrument for urban shape based on the interaction between topographic obstacles arid mechanically predicted city growth. I then investigate how city shape affects the location choices of consumers …
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Estimating Economic Activity from Space
… explicit estimates of economic activity from nighttime satellite imagery as provided by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Opertaional Linescan System (DMSP-OLS). The methods presented here are used to estimate formal and informal economic activity of Mexico and India at the …
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Aladdin's Magic Lamp: Developing Methods for Calibration and Geolocation Accuracy Assessment of the DMSP OLS
<p>Nighttime satellite imagery from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) has a unique capability to observe nocturnal light emissions from sources including cities, wild fires, and gas flares. Data from the DMSP OLS is used in a wide range of studies …