Shedding Light on the Global Distribution of Economic Activity

By Tilottama Ghosh, R. Powell, Christopher D. Elvidge, Kimberly E. Baugh, Paul C. Sutton, Sharolyn Anderson. 2010

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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space (2017, unknown): “Furthermore, for small samples of developed countries studies have shown that light can also be a good proxy for regional development (Ebener, et al., 2005; Ghosh et al., 2010; Sutton et al., 2007).”
Monitoring economic development from space : using nighttime light and land cover data to measure economic growth (2015, background): “Ghosh et al. (2010) divide economic activities into commerce/industry and agriculture.”
Forecasting China’s GDP at the pixel level using nighttime lights time series and population images (2017, methodology): “The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) nighttime light imagery (originally designed to collect information about moonlit clouds) has been successfully used to estimate socioeconomic factors (e.g., GDP, electric power consumption, and fossil fuel carbon ”
VIIRS night-time lights (2017, background): “…of the widely used geospatial data products (Amaral et al. 2005; Small, Pozzi, and Elvidge 2005; Sutton et al. 2007; Bharti et al. 2009; Chand et al. 2009; Ghosh et al. 2010; Oda and Maksyutov 2011; Witmer and O’loughlin 2011; He et al. 2012; Mazor et al. 2013; Min et al. 2013; Falchi et al. 2016).”
A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009 (2013, methodology): “DMSP/OLS sensors have been used to map economic activity [16] and urban change at coarse scales [17].”
Using Nighttime Satellite Imagery as a Proxy Measure of Human Well-Being (2013, methodology): “This assumption is derived from Browning and Crossley’s study [61] in which they concluded that ―it is better to have several error prone measures than one‖ [8].”
Diversity, biogeography and the global flows of alien amphibians and reptiles (2017, methodology): “Data on per capita GDP were taken from Ghosh et al. (2010), Gennaioli, La Porta, De Silanes, and Shleifer (2014), the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (www.ine.es/), The Worldbank (http://data.worldbank. org/), The World Factbook…”
Intercalibration of DMSP-OLS night-time light data by the invariant region method (2013, background): “…Kareiva, and Formana 2008), economic evaluation (Doll, Muller, and Morley 2006; Sutton, Elvidge, and Ghosh 2007; Elvidge, Sutton, et al. 2009; Ghosh et al. 2010; Raupach, Rayner, and Paget 2010; Chaturvedi, Ghosh, and Bhandari 2011), energy consumption (Chand et al. 2009; Elvidge et al.…”
Potential of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Imagery for Modeling the Regional Economy of China (2013, background): “A typical example is using remotely sensed optical imagery for mapping the urban land use distribution, which is an important indicator of the economic status of a country [3–5].”