Using VIIRS day/night band to measure electricity supply reliability: Preliminary results from Maharashtra, India

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Mann, Michael L ^a   Melaas, Eli K ^b   Malik, Arun ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Electricity; Nighttime lights; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICITY; INFRARED IMAGING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; MAHARASHTRA , INDIA; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; RELIABILITY ESTIMATES; VIIRS; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 85019373359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090711     Document Type: Article

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