Navigating the Night

Author

Dr. Elisabetta Pietrostefani

Published

April 9, 2024

Welcome

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This is the website for Navigating the Night, a workshop at GISRUK2024 by Dr. Elisabetta Pietrostefani from the University of Liverpool. This workshops is sponsored by the RGS-IBG Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG). The theme of the GISRUK 2024 is GIS for public good: data, theory, policy.

The session introduces students to raster data focusing on night lights. Night time satellite images show luminosity - i.e. the brightness of a place at night. The idea is that luminosity correlates strongly with economic activity and can be especially useful in data poor contexts where other economic data is not collected.

The website is free to use and is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. A compilation of this web course is hosted as a GitHub repository that you can access:

As an html website.
As a GitHub repository.

Contact

Elisabetta Pietrostefani - e.pietrostefani [at] liverpool.ac.uk Lecturer in Geographic Data Science, University of Liverpool.