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Figuring out smarter ways to use satellites & AI for environment┋ PhD student @UCSBgeog┋Building @MapSolveAI Past: @PEAK_Urban @iihsin Views are personal
Feb 2, 2022 13 tweets 4 min read
2021-2022 Economic Survey (ES) uses remote sensing and #geospatial data ‘to track, compare
and represent longer term developments’. But when using remote sensing data, proper calibration, validation and visualisation are necessary. Else the data can be very misleading. 🧵
1/13 ES states that comparison of night time lights (NTL) between 2012 and 2021 provides “..an interesting representation of the expansion of electricity supply..” apart from distribution of population, economic activity and ribbon developments.
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