Conference Paper2020Cited by 4

What Can Nighttime Lights Tell Us about Bangladesh?

Muntasir Wahed, Redwan Ahmed Rizvee, Riddho Ridwanul Haque, Amin Masud Ali, Moinul Zaber, Amin Ahsan Ali

2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP)

IEEE, pp. 1612–1615

DOI: 10.1109/tensymp50017.2020.9230806URL

Abstract

Analyzing the state and growth of various socioeconomic indicators is essential for effective developmental planning at a sub-national level. However, in many cases, data regarding such indicators are not publicly available and/or hard to collect. In many other cases, the available data may not be recent enough. In contrast, satellite data is both readily available and up-to-date. In recent times, various studies have been conducted to use different types of satellite data as a proxy to determine the condition of socio-economic indicators in different places around the world. In this paper, we study the efficacy of one such data source, nighttime lights (NTL), for monitoring factors related to sustainable development in the context of Bangladesh.

Keywords

  • nighttime lights
  • socioeconomic indicators
  • Sustainable development
  • satellite remote sensing
  • Bangladesh

CCDS Authors

Muntasir Wahed
https://mmiakashs.github.io/

Muntasir Wahed

  • Collaborator, AI/ML Wing

Ph.D Candidate

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

Machine Learning

Amin Masud Ali, PhD
Amin Masud Ali, PhD

Amin Masud Ali, PhD

  • Supervisor, DS Wing

Professor

Department of Economics

Jahangirnagar University

Research Interests

Development Economics, Public Sector Economics

Moinul I Zaber, PhD
Moinul I Zaber, PhD

Moinul I Zaber, PhD

  • Director, HCI Wing
  • Supervisor, DS Wing

Professor

+2 more affiliations

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Dhaka University

Published at

ICPR, HCII, JMIR

Research Interests

Computational Social Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Telecommunication Policy

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD
Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

  • Director, AI/ML Wing

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECCV, IJCAI, ECAI, WACV, IPSN, PAKDD, LREC, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, BEA, BLP, ICMLA, Scientific Reports, Scientific Data, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences, Ad Hoc Networks, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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