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Fluctuations in anthropogenic nighttime lights from satellite imagery for five cities in Niger and Nigeria.
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- Impact of a multi-pronged cholera intervention in an endemic setting.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Characterizing mobility patterns and malaria risk factors in semi-nomadic populations of Northern Kenya.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Assessing demographic and economic vulnerabilities to sea level rise in Bangladesh via a nighttime light-based cellular automata model.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Investigating persistent measles dynamics in Niger and associations with rainfall.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
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- On-Orbit Signal-to-Noise Ratio Test Method for Night-Light Camera in Luojia 1-01 Satellite Based on Time-Sequence Imagery.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- A high-resolution gridded dataset to assess electrification in sub-Saharan Africa.Scientific data · 2019Article
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Abstract
Dynamic measures of human populations are critical for global health management but are often overlooked, largely because they are difficult to quantify. Measuring human population dynamics can be prohibitively expensive in under-resourced communities. Satellite imagery can provide measurements of human populations, past and present, to complement public health analyses and interventions. We used anthropogenic illumination from publicly accessible, serial satellite nighttime images as a quantifiable proxy for seasonal population variation in five urban areas in Niger and Nigeria. We identified population fluxes as the mechanistic driver of regional seasonal measles outbreaks. Our data showed 1) urban illumination fluctuated seasonally, 2) corresponding population fluctuations were sufficient to drive seasonal measles outbreaks, and 3) overlooking these fluctuations during vaccination activities resulted in below-target coverage levels, incapable of halting transmission of the virus. We designed immunization solutions capable of achieving above-target coverage of both resident and mobile populations. Here, we provide detailed data on brightness from 2000-2005 for 5 cities in Niger and Nigeria and detailed methodology for application to other populations.
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