TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shah, Megh (PG190550)
AU  - Chhabra, Abha (Guide)    
AU  - Upadhyay, Ashish (Guide)     
TI  - Use of space-based night-time light data for societal and environmental applications Use of space-based night-time light data for societal and environmental applications (Softcopy is also available) 
U1  - MG TH-0223 
PY  - 2021///
N1  - Contents
Certificate of original authorship	vii
Certificate of Dissertation Advisor’s consent	iii
Certificate of Internship	v
Acknowledgments	vii
Abstract	ix
List of figures	xi
List of tables	xv
1	Chapter 1: Introduction	1
1.1	Introduction	1
1.2	Background	2
1.3	Research Identification	3
1.4	Objectives of the Study	4
1.5	Thesis Outline	4
2	Chapter 2: Literature Review	5
2.1	Brief about Remote Sensing	5
2.2	Night-Time Light Remote Sensing (NLRS)	6
2.3	Overview & Brief of Major NTL Datasets	6
2.3.1	DMSP-OLS	7
2.3.2	Suomi NPP-VIIRS	9
2.3.3	Other Satellites	10
2.4	Applications associated with Nighttime Light Remote Sensing	11
2.4.1	Socioeconomic Activities	12
2.4.2	Urbanization and regional development	12
2.4.3	Energy and Greenhouse Gas	12
2.4.4	Disasters and conflicts	13
2.4.5	Fisheries	13
2.5	Power Sector of India	14
3	Chapter 3: Working Methodology	17
3.1	Methodology Workflow	17
3.2	Study Area	19
3.3	Data Used	21
3.4	Data Pre-Processing	24
3.4.1	Masking Based on Low Cloud-Free Coverages	24
3.4.2	Masking based on low average radiance	25
4	Chapter 4: Results and Discussions	27
4.1	Spatio-Temporal Analysis of changes in luminosity using satellite-derived Night-Time light data for the year 2012 to 2020	27
4.1.1	Generation of Radiance Images	27
4.1.2	Generation of Colourized Difference Images	28
4.2	Deriving Remote Sensing based Index	31
4.2.1	Space Value Index (SVI)	31
4.2.2	Population Density of India	33
4.2.3	Regression between Space Value & Population Density	34
4.3	Dimming of Lights during Covid-19 Pandemic	35
4.3.1	Generation of Radiance Images	35
4.3.2	Generation of Colourized Difference Images of India	36
4.3.3	Generation of Colourized Difference Images of different cities	37
4.4	Impact on fossil fuel-driven CO2 emissions (environmental emissions) from Thermal Power Plants during Covid-19 Pandemic	40
5	Chapter 5: Conclusions & Recommendations	43
5.1	Conclusions	43
5.2	Limitations & Recommendations	44
References	xlvii
Appendix 1: Space Value Index (Year 2020)	li
Appendix 2: Population Density of India (Census 2021)	lii
Plagiarism Report Copy	53


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