Tracking electrification in Vietnam using nighttime lights

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9511-9529

  Min, Brian ^a   Gaba, Kwawu Mensan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Electricity; Ground truth; Night lights; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICITY; LUMINANCE; STREET LIGHTING; SURVEYS;

DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; GROUND TRUTH; GROUND-BASED VALIDATIONS; NIGHT LIGHTS; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; RURAL ELECTRIFICATION; VIET NAM;

RURAL AREAS;

EID: 84923559737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6109511     Document Type: Article

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