Estimating wealth from outer space
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 10:03
in Astronomy & Space
They found that it is possible to make inferences about the wealth of a region by measuring the amount of nighttime illumination. While this has been used for large geographic units such as countries, the two researchers can now show that this also works for individual settlements within a given country. Their findings have been published in a special issue on "Forecasting in Peace Research" of the Journal of Peace Research.