Identifying Urban Areas by Combining Data from the Ground and from Outer Space : An Application to India
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,...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/892371540833795715/Identifying-Urban-Areas-by-Combining-Data-from-the-Ground-and-from-Outer-Space-An-Application-to-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30648 |