Satellites orbiting the earth can be a vital weapon to fight poverty from space since they can closely examine physical living conditions around the world
Despite the success in reducing global poverty over the last two decades, nearly one billion people continue to live without access to reliable electricity, which in turn impacts health and welfare and impedes sustainable development.Now, a new IIASA-ledproposes a method to estimate global economic wellbeing: the use of nighttime satellite images.
However, satellites can offer an alternative, mapping out towns and villages while assessing economic conditions more cheaply and effectively than governments can. In developing countries, areas that are unlit at night generally indicate limited development, while brightly lit areas indicate more developed areas like capital cities where infrastructure is abundant.
“By identifying those unlit areas we can target interventions for poverty alleviation and places to focus on to improve energy access.” The majority of unlit settlement footprints were found in Africa with 39 percent and Asia with 23 percent. If only rural unlit infrastructure is considered, those numbers rise to 65 percent for Africa and 40 percent for Asia.
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