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Can We Rely on VIIRS Nightlights to Estimate the Short-Term Impacts of Natural Disasters? Evidence from Five Southeast Asian Countries

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dc.contributor.authorStrobl, Eric
dc.contributor.authorSkoufias, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorTveit, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-21T17:30:29Z
dc.date.available2019-11-21T17:30:29Z
dc.date.issued2019-10
dc.description.abstractVisible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nightlights are used to model damage caused by earthquakes, floods, and typhoons in five Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). The data are used to examine the extent to which for each type of hazard there is a difference in nightlight intensity between affected and nonaffected cells based on (i) case studies of specific disasters, and (ii) fixed effect regression models akin to the double difference method to determine any effect that the different natural hazards might have had on the nightlight value. The results show little to no significance regardless of the methodology used, most likely due to noise in the nightlight data and the fact that the tropics have only a few days per month with no cloud cover.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/757621572539847894/Can-We-Rely-on-VIIRS-Nightlights-to-Estimate-the-Short-Term-Impacts-of-Natural-Disasters
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9052
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/32661
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9052
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectREMOTE SENSING
dc.subjectNATURAL DISASTER
dc.subjectDAMAGE INDEX
dc.subjectFLOOD
dc.subjectEARTHQUAKE
dc.subjectTYPHOON
dc.subjectVISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING
dc.titleCan We Rely on VIIRS Nightlights to Estimate the Short-Term Impacts of Natural Disasters? Evidence from Five Southeast Asian Countriesen
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okr.crossref.titleCan we Rely on VIIRS Nightlights to Estimate the Short-Term Impacts of Natural Disasters?
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okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
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okr.topicEnvironment::Natural Disasters
okr.unitPoverty and Equity Global Practice
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