Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics

Bennett, Mia M.; Smith, Laurence C.

doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.005

Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics

Since the late 1990s, remotely sensed night-time lights (NTL) satellite imagery has been shown to correlate with socioeconomic parameters including urbanization, economic activity, and population. More recent research demonstrates that multitemporal NTL data can serve as a reliable proxy for chan…