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Spatial analysis of global urban extent from DMSP-OLS night lights
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In this paper, the tradeoff between blooming and attenuation of smaller lights was investigated in stable night lights datasets, and a Gaussian detection probability model was used to find a linear relationship between atmospheric scattering combined with a random geolocation error.About:
This article is published in Remote Sensing of Environment.The article was published on 2005-06-30. It has received 592 citations till now.read more
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
TL;DR: A statistical framework is developed that uses satellite data on lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurementerror in national income accounts.
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Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers
Günther Grill,Bernhard Lehner,Michele Thieme,B. Geenen,David Tickner,F. Antonelli,S. Babu,Pasquale Borrelli,L. Cheng,H. Crochetiere,H. Ehalt Macedo,R. Filgueiras,M. Goichot,Jonathan V. Higgins,Zeb S. Hogan,B. Lip,Michael E. McClain,J. Meng,Mark Mulligan,Christer Nilsson,Christer Nilsson,Julian D. Olden,Jeffrey J. Opperman,Paulo Petry,Paulo Petry,C. Reidy Liermann,Leonardo Sáenz,Leonardo Sáenz,S. Salinas-Rodriguez,P. Schelle,Rafael Schmitt,J. Snider,Florence Tan,Klement Tockner,Klement Tockner,Paula Hanna Valdujo,A. van Soesbergen,Christiane Zarfl +37 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive assessment of the world’s rivers and their connectivity shows that only 37 per cent of rivers longer than 1,000 kilometres remain free-flowing over their entire length.
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Extracting the dynamics of urban expansion in China using DMSP-OLS nighttime light data from 1992 to 2008
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a new method for systematically correcting multi-year multi-satellite nighttime stable lights data and rapidly extracting the dynamics of urban expansion based on this corrected data for China from 1992 to 2008.
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The Urban Transformation of the Developing World
TL;DR: To provide policy-makers with useful scientific guidance in the upcoming urban era, demographic researchers will need to refine their data sets to include spatial factors as well as urban vital rates and to make improvements to forecasting methods currently in use.
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VIIRS night-time lights
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the algorithms developed for the production of high-quality global VIIRS night-time lights, which can be used to generate monthly and annual science grade global radiance maps of human settlements with electric lighting.
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Human population in the biodiversity hotspots.
TL;DR: Estimates of key demographic variables for each hotspot and for three extensive tropical forest areas that are less immediately threatened suggest that substantial human-induced environmental changes are likely to continue in the hotspots and that demographic change remains an important factor in global biodiversity conservation.
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Relation between satellite observed visible-near infrared emissions, population, economic activity and electric power consumption
Christopher D. Elvidge,Kimberly E. Baugh,Eric Kihn,Herbert W. Kroehl,Ethan R. Davis,C. W. Davis +5 more
TL;DR: The area lit by anthropogenic visible-near infrared emissions (i.e., lights) has been estimated for 21 countries using night-time data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS).
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The first World Atlas of the artificial night sky brightness
TL;DR: The first World Atlas of the zenith artificial night sky brightness at sea level is presented in this article, based on radiance-calibrated high-resolution DMSP satellite data and on accurate modelling of light propagation in the atmosphere.
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A Technique for Using Composite DMSP/OLS "City Lights"Satellite Data to Map Urban Area
TL;DR: In this paper, a thresholding technique was used to convert a prototype "city lights" data set from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Geophysical Data Center (NOAAINGDC) into a map of "urban areas" for the continental United States.
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On the evolution of hierarchical urban systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an evolutionary approach which combines a general equilibrium model with an adjustment dynamics to overcome the multiplicity of equilibria, and demonstrated that as the economy's population size increases gradually, the urban system self-organizes into a highly regular hierarchical system.