Creating a global grid of distributed fossil fuel CO2 emissions from nighttime satellite imagery

Energies

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1895-1913

  Ghosh, Tilottama ^a   Elvidge, Christopher D ^b   Sutton, Paul C ^c   Baugh, Kimberly E ^a   Ziskin, Daniel ^a   Tuttle, Benjamin T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Landscan population grid; Nighttime satellite image

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; LIGHTING; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES;

DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILITIES; LANDSCAN POPULATION GRID; LIGHTING PRACTICES; MODERATE RESOLUTION; PANCHROMATIC SATELLITES; SATELLITE IMAGES; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 78650284406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en3121895     Document Type: Article

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