A global poverty map derived from satellite data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1652-1660

  Elvidge, Christopher D ^a   Sutton, Paul C ^b   Ghosh, Tilottama ^b,c   Tuttle, Benjamin T ^b,c   Baugh, Kimberly E ^c   Bhaduri, Budhendra ^d   Bright, Edward ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

DMSP; Nighttime lights; Poverty; World development indicators

Indexed keywords

DMSP; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; GLOBAL POVERTY; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; LAND COVER; NATIONAL LEVEL; NEW CLASS; NIGHTTIME LIGHTS; POVERTY; REFERENCE DATA; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS;

ECONOMICS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CALIBRATION; DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND COVER; MAPPING METHOD; POVERTY DETERMINANT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 67650535714     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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