Estimation of Mexico's informal economy and remittances using nighttime imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 418-444

  Ghosh, Tilottama ^a,b   Anderson, Sharolyn ^a   Powell, Rebecca L ^a   Sutton, Paul C ^a   Elvidge, Christopher D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Globalization; Gross domestic product; Gross national income; Informal economy; Law of allometric growth; Nighttime satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRIC GROWTH; GLOBALIZATION; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; GROSS NATIONAL INCOMES; INFORMAL ECONOMY; NIGHTTIME SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 78649334333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1030418     Document Type: Article

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