Who's in the Dark—Satellite Based Estimates of Electrification Rates

Yang, Xiaojun (editor) / Elvidge, Christopher D. (author) / Baugh, Kimberly E. (author) / Sutton, Paul C. (author) / Bhaduri, Budhendra (author) / Tuttle, Benjamin T. (author) / Ghosh, Tilotamma (author) / Ziskin, Daniel (author) / Erwin, Edward H. (author)

Urban Remote Sensing ; 211-224

2011-04-15

14 pages

9780470979563 , 9780470749586

https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470979563.ch15

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

US Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) ‐ in combination with US Department of Energy Landscan population dataset , Landscan population count ‐ in areas with DMSP detected lighting , comparing DMSP estimated and IEA reported electrification rates , DMSP, estimated electrification rates ‐ for countries of the world for the year 2006 , Who's in the dark–satellite based estimates of electrification rates ‐ percent population having electric power access, presence of satellite detected night‐time lighting , International Energy Agency (IEA), 2006 ‐ reporting electrification rates for 86 countries , global survey, 2006 using night‐time lights ‐ results for 232 countries and more than 2000 subnational units , national electrification rate estimates , satellite sensors, NOAA's AVHRR and NASA's MODIS ‐ fire detection, anthropogenic in origin using thermal bands , first systematic global assessment of electrification rates ‐ combining DMSP night‐time lights with population density grid