Who's in the Dark-Satellite Based Estimates of Electrification Rates

Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 211-224

  Elvidge, Christopher D ^a   Baugh, Kimberly E ^b   Sutton, Paul C ^c   Bhaduri, Budhendra ^d   Tuttle, Benjamin T ^b   Ghosh, Tilotamma ^b   Ziskin, Daniel ^b   Erwin, Edward H ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparing DMSP estimated and IEA reported electrification rates; DMSP, estimated electrification rates for countries of the world for the year 2006; First systematic global assessment of electrification rates combining DMSP night time lights with population density grid; Global survey, 2006 using night time lights results for 232 countries and more than 2000 subnational units; International Energy Agency (IEA), 2006 reporting electrification rates for 86 countries; Landscan population count in areas with DMSP detected lighting; National electrification rate estimates; Satellite sensors, NOAA's AVHRR and NASA's MODIS fire detection, anthropogenic in origin using thermal bands; US Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) in combination with US Department of Energy Landscan population dataset; Who's in the dark satellite based estimates of electrification rates percent population having electric power access, presence of satellite detected night time lighting

Indexed keywords

LIGHTING; MILITARY AVIATION; NASA; NETWORK SECURITY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SATELLITES; SURVEYS;

DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; DMSP, ESTIMATED ELECTRIFICATION RATES - FOR COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD FOR THE YEAR 2006; ELECTRIC POWER; FIRE DETECTION; INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY; NATIONAL ELECTRIFICATION RATE ESTIMATES; NIGHT TIME LIGHTS;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

EID: 84886190174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979563.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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