Tag: Colombia
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Socio-economic analysis with nighttime light series. Step 1: downloading shapefile of the study area
Context: we analyze economic changes in Colombian municipalities between 1993 and 2020. We need to download ArcGis, a geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information maintained by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri). It is used for creating and using maps, compiling geographic data, analyzing mapped information, sharing and discovering geographic…
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Socio-economic analysis with nighttime light series: uploading nighttime light file to a GIS software
Context: we analyze economic changes in Colombian municipalities between 1993 and 2020. After having downloaded nighttime images from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and install ArcGIS or any other GIS software in our computer, we proceed now to upload nighttime files for our analysis. NOAA provide images covering the whole world which can…