Nightlight as a Proxy of Economic Indicators: Fine-Grained GDP Inference around Chinese Mainland via Attention-Augmented CNN from Daytime Satellite Imagery

Nightlight as a Proxy of Economic Indicators: Fine-Grained GDP Inference around Chinese Mainland via Attention-Augmented CNN from Daytime Satellite Imagery

The official method of collecting county-level GDP values in the Chinese Mainland relies mainly on administrative reporting data and suffers from high costs of time, money, and human labor. To date, a series of studies have been conducted to generate fine-grained maps of socioeconomic indicators fro...

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Main Authors: Haoyu Liu, Xianwen He, Yanbing Bai, Xing Liu, Yilin Wu, Yanyun Zhao, Hanfang Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
attention-augmented CNN
nightlight
fine-grained GDP estimation
daytime satellite imagery
arbitrary area representation
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/11/2067

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