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...
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2018/10/29
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Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики
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WPS8628
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2018/10/29
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Identifying Urban Areas by Combining Data from the Ground and from Outer Space : An Application to India
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urbanization