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Identifying Urban Areas By Combining Data From The Ground And From Outer Space : An Application To India / Galdo, Virgilio.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Galdo, Virgilio.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Assessment.
- Employment and unemployment.
- Georeferenced data.
- Google images.
- Hydrology.
- ICT applications.
- Information and communication technologies.
- Satellite imagery.
- Social protections and labor.
- Transport.
- Urban extent.
- Urbanization.
- Water resources.
- Local Subjects:
- Assessment.
- Employment and unemployment.
- Georeferenced data.
- Google images.
- Hydrology.
- ICT applications.
- Information and communication technologies.
- Satellite imagery.
- Social protections and labor.
- Transport.
- Urban extent.
- Urbanization.
- Water resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (34 pages)
- Other Title:
- Identifying Urban Areas By Combining Data From The Ground And From Outer Space
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper develops a tractable method to identify urban areas and applies it to India, where urbanization is messy. Google Earth images are assessed subjectively to determine whether a stratified large sample of Indian cities, towns and villages, as officially defined, are urban or rural in practice. Based on these assessments, a regression analysis combines two sources of information-data from georeferenced population censuses and data from satellite imagery-to identify the correlates of units in the sample being urban. The resulting model is used to predict whether the other units in the country are urban or rural in practice. Contrary to frequent claims, India is not substantially more urban than implied by census data. And the speed of urbanization is only marginally higher than official statistics suggest. But a considerable number of locations are misclassified in the midrange between villages and state capitals. The results confirm the value of combining subjective assessments with data from these different sources.
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