Shedding light on development: Leveraging the new nightlights data to measure economic progress
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0318482
Abstract: Nightlights (NTL) have been widely used as a proxy for economic activity, despite known limitations in accuracy and comparability, particularly with outdated Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) data. The emergence of newer and more precise… read more here.
Keywords: harmonized ntl; shedding light; index; light development ... See more keywords