Ran Goldblatt

Content by Ran Goldblatt

• Publication - Policy Brief

  Mapping urbanisation in India with satellite imagery

  Satellite images provide a promising source of data for measuring urbanisation: It provides higher spatial and temporal resolution than administrative data. This project uses remotely sensed data to detect urban markets in India for 2013 (accessible via the Google Earth Engine). We find that landcover-based markets detected from daytime satellite imagery are...

  11 Oct 2019 | Kathryn Baragwanath Vogel, Ran Goldblatt, Gordon Hanson, Amit Khandelwal

  
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• Publication - Working Paper

  Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India

  12 Apr 2019 | Kathryn Baragwanath Vogel, Ran Goldblatt, Gordon Hanson, Amit Khandelwal

  
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• Project

  Mapping the urban world: Integrating high-resolution satellite imagery and night light data

  Tracking how an economy allocates resources across space and time is difficult. Reliable data sources, particularly from developing countries, are scarce. Those that do exist (e.g., population censuses) are typically measured at low frequencies, difficult to obtain, hard to compare across countries, and available only for coarse spatial units (e.g., districts or counties)....

  12 Oct 2017 | Gordon Hanson, Amit Khandelwal, Ran Goldblatt