Ola Hall
Head of Department, Senior Lecturer
Monitoring Economic Development from Space: Using Nighttime Light and Land Cover Data to Measure Economic Growth
Author
Summary, in English
This study demonstrates estimations of economic activities on global, national, and subnational levels using remote sensing data, with a focus on developing economies. It extends a recent statistical framework which uses nighttime lights to estimate official income growth by accounting for agriculture and forestry which emit less or no additional observable nighttime light. The study argues that nighttime lights alone may not explain value-added by agriculture and forestry. By adding land cover data, our framework can be used to estimate economic growth in administrative areas of virtually any size. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Department/s
- Department of Human Geography
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
Pages
322-334
Publication/Series
World Development
Volume
66
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Human Geography
Keywords
- remote sensing
- economic growth
- land cover
- MODIS
- gross domestic
- product
- gross regional product
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1873-5991