Estimating electrification using multi-temporal DMSP/OLS night imagery as proxy measure of human well-being in India

• Published in: Spatial information research (Online) Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 469 - 473
• Main Authors: Paul, Arati, Verma, Bhuvanesh, Chakraborty, Debasish
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Singapore 01.08.2020; 대한공간정보학회
• Subjects: Database Management; Earth and Environmental Science; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Geography; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; 공학일반; Electrification; Human wellbeing; Population; Power consumption; Night light

Annual electric power consumption (EPC) measures the electrification rate of a region. In the present study, annual composites of temporal defense meteorological satellite program/operational line-scan system night time light (NTL) imagery is used as a proxy measure for estimating electrification of...