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Analysis of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Changes in Brightness of Nighttime Lights (NTL) in the Former USSR Territory

Authors:
Michail Zhizhin
Alexey Poyda
Alexander Troussov
Sergey Maruev

Keywords: Earth Remote Sensing, Night-time lights, data mining, big data, spatio-temporal analysis, socio-economic applications.

Abstract:
The distribution of brightness of nighttime lights (NTL) at the Earth’s surface in the visible band of the electromagnetic spectrum is a new forward-looking data source for socio-economic studies. Visual and statistical analysis of this distribution in time and space requires new mathematical and geo-informational methods of cooperative processing of many raster images and vector data (geographical maps) together with socio-economic analytics. The current research develops new means of the spatiotemporal analysis, reveals basic problems of applied monitoring, and outlines forward-looking approaches to their solution.

Pages: 58 to 62

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: April 26, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3557

ISBN: 978-1-61208-783-2

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 25, 2020 to October 29, 2020