Using satellite data to track economic change in developing countries

(This was a talk given at PyData Singapore) Frequently updated satellite imagery can be used to track economic change at the macro- and micro-levels in developing countries
Dec 02, 2019

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Code and Jupyter notebooks

Github repo

Slide Deck

Data Sources

• Historical nightlights data (by month)
• Daily nightlights data
• Sentinel-2 data on Google Cloud Storage
• Sentinel-2 data on AWS S3

Links to interactive charts

• Tracking nightlight changes over time in Indian states and districts
• Luminosity in Singapore
• Nightligt intensity by province across Asia

Have Questions?

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