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Night-time lights: A global, long term look at links to socio-economic trends
We use a parallelized spatial analytics platform to process the twenty-one year totality of the longest-running time series of night-time lights data—the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) dataset—surpassing the narrower scope of prior studies to assess changes in area lit of countries...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367807/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28346500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174610 |
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author | Proville, Jeremy Zavala-Araiza, Daniel Wagner, Gernot |
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description | We use a parallelized spatial analytics platform to process the twenty-one year totality of the longest-running time series of night-time lights data—the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) dataset—surpassing the narrower scope of prior studies to assess changes in area lit of countries globally. Doing so allows a retrospective look at the global, long-term relationships between night-time lights and a series of socio-economic indicators. We find the strongest correlations with electricity consumption, CO(2) emissions, and GDP, followed by population, CH(4) emissions, N(2)O emissions, poverty (inverse) and F-gas emissions. Relating area lit to electricity consumption shows that while a basic linear model provides a good statistical fit, regional and temporal trends are found to have a significant impact. |
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spelling | pubmed-53678072017-04-06 Night-time lights: A global, long term look at links to socio-economic trends Proville, Jeremy Zavala-Araiza, Daniel Wagner, Gernot PLoS One Research Article We use a parallelized spatial analytics platform to process the twenty-one year totality of the longest-running time series of night-time lights data—the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) dataset—surpassing the narrower scope of prior studies to assess changes in area lit of countries globally. Doing so allows a retrospective look at the global, long-term relationships between night-time lights and a series of socio-economic indicators. We find the strongest correlations with electricity consumption, CO(2) emissions, and GDP, followed by population, CH(4) emissions, N(2)O emissions, poverty (inverse) and F-gas emissions. Relating area lit to electricity consumption shows that while a basic linear model provides a good statistical fit, regional and temporal trends are found to have a significant impact. Public Library of Science 2017-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5367807/ /pubmed/28346500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174610 Text en © 2017 Proville et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Proville, Jeremy Zavala-Araiza, Daniel Wagner, Gernot Night-time lights: A global, long term look at links to socio-economic trends |
title | Night-time lights: A global, long term look at links to socio-economic trends |
title_full | Night-time lights: A global, long term look at links to socio-economic trends |
title_fullStr | Night-time lights: A global, long term look at links to socio-economic trends |
title_full_unstemmed | Night-time lights: A global, long term look at links to socio-economic trends |
title_short | Night-time lights: A global, long term look at links to socio-economic trends |
title_sort | night-time lights: a global, long term look at links to socio-economic trends |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367807/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28346500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174610 |
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