Essays about: "nightlight imagery"

Found 4 essays containing the words nightlight imagery.

  1. 1. Predicting Health and Living Standards of India using Deep Learning

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Sarath Mookola Raveendran; [2022-10-14]
    Keywords : IWI index; Deep CNN; poverty; ResNet-18; Deep Learning; multispectral images; nightlight images; India; health and living standards;

    Abstract : Poverty eradication is an inexorable process in human growth [21], with poverty estimation being the first and most important stage. Identifying strategies for poverty reduction programs and distributing resources appropriately requires determining the poverty levels of distinct places throughout the world. READ MORE

  3. 2. Zipf's Law for Natural Cities Extracted from Location-Based Social Media Data

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad

    Author : Sirui Wu; [2015]
    Keywords : big data; location-based social media data; Zipf s law; power law; natural cities; ht-index;

    Abstract : Zipf’s law is one of the empirical statistical regularities found within many natural systems, ranging from protein sequences of immune receptors in cells to the intensity of solar flares from the sun. Verifying the universality of Zipf’s law can provide many opportunities for us to further seek the commonalities of phenomena that possess the power law behavior. READ MORE

  4. 3. A study on Extraction of Natural Cities from the Nightlight Imagery Using Head/tail breaks method

    University essay from Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad

    Author : Sirui Wu; [2013]
    Keywords : nightlight imagery; extraction of natural cities; head tail break; threshold; power law;

    Abstract : With the high development of economic and demand for city research, an issue of detecting city boundaries plays an extremely important role in urbanization that promotes the progress of human civilization. Some critical applications such as land use, urban planning and city sprawl have been constantly discussed, which rely on the acquisition of city areas. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Case Study on the Extraction of the Natural Cities from Nightlight Image of the United States of America

    University essay from Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad

    Author : QINGLING LIU; [2013]
    Keywords : cities boundaries; DMSP OLS; head tail breaks classification; nighttime lights; power law; urban areas;

    Abstract : The boundaries of the cities are not immutable, they can be changed. With the development of the economies and societies, the population and pollution of cities are increasing. Some urban areas are expanding with more population or other dynamics of urbanization, while other urban areas are reducing with the changing of the dynamics. READ MORE