Measuring Districts' Monthly Economic Activity from Outer Space

• Tác giả: Robert C. M Beyer
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.94 Space
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 308785
• Chủ đề: 1. INFRARED IMAGING; 2. NIGHTLIGHT MEASUREMENT; 3. REMOTE SENSING; 4. SPATIAL ANALYSIS; 5. VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITE

Tóm tắt

 Evening-hour luminosity observed using satellites is a good proxy for economic activity. The strengths of measuring economic activity using nightlight measurements include that the data capture informal activity, are available in near real-time, are cheap to obtain, and can be used to conduct very spatially granular analysis. This paper presents a measure of monthly economic activity at the district level based on cleaned Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite nightlight and rural population. The paper demonstrates that this new method can shed light on recent episodes in South Asia: first, the 2015 earthquake in Nepal
  second, demonetization in India
  and, third, violent conflict outbreaks in Afghanistan.