Poverty Evaluation Using NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Composite Data at the County Level in China

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1217-1229

  Yu, Bailang ^a   Shi, Kaifang ^a   Hu, Yingjie ^b   Huang, Chang ^c   Chen, Zuoqi ^a   Wu, Jianping ^a  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; county scale; integrated poverty index (IPI); nighttime light data; NPP VIIRS; poverty

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; ORBITS;

CHINA; COUNTY SCALE; INTEGRATED POVERTY INDEX (IPI); NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; NPP-VIIRS; POVERTY;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; INDEX METHOD; POVERTY DETERMINANT; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE DATA; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

CHINA;

EID: 85027934513     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2399416     Document Type: Article

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