Poverty from Space : Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Estimating Economic Well-Being

Poverty from Space : Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Estimating Economic Well-Being

Can features extracted from high spatial resolution satellite imagery accurately estimate poverty and economic well-being? This paper investigates this question by extracting object and texture features from satellite images of Sri Lanka, which are...

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Main Authors: Engstrom, Ryan, Hersh, Jonathan, Newhouse, David
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
SATELLITE IMAGERY
MACHINE LEARNING
WELL-BEING
POVERTY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/610771513691888412/Poverty-from-space-using-high-resolution-satellite-imagery-for-estimating-economic-well-being
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29075

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/610771513691888412/Poverty-from-space-using-high-resolution-satellite-imagery-for-estimating-economic-well-being
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29075

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