Observing community resilience from space: Using nighttime lights to model economic disturbance and recovery pattern in natural disaster

Qiang, Yi; Huang, Qingxu; Xu, Jinwen

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2020.102115

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“…Atmospheric airglow is a persistent background of variable strength in night lights imagery. While this can be ignored in some applications (e.g., impacts of war [28,29] or other disasters [30,31]), for other analyses it is a crucial factor. One of the most important examples is in observing trends in light emissions at national [5,6] and international [6,32] scale.…”

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confidence: 99%

Reducing Variability and Removing Natural Light from Nighttime Satellite Imagery: A Case Study Using the VIIRS DNB

Coesfeld

Kuester²,

Kuechly³

et al. 2020

Sensors

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Temporal variation of natural light sources such as airglow limits the ability of night light sensors to detect changes in small sources of artificial light (such as villages). This study presents a method for correcting for this effect globally, using the satellite radiance detected from regions without artificial light emissions. We developed a routine to define an approximate grid of locations worldwide that do not have regular light emission. We apply this method with a 5 degree equally spaced global grid (total of 2016 individual locations), using data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day-Night Band (DNB). This code could easily be adapted for other future global sensors. The correction reduces the standard deviation of data in the Earth Observation Group monthly DNB composites by almost a factor of two. The code and datasets presented here are available under an open license by GFZ Data Services, and are implemented in the Radiance Light Trends web application.

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confidence: 99%

Reducing Variability and Removing Natural Light from Nighttime Satellite Imagery: A Case Study Using the VIIRS DNB

Coesfeld

Kuester²,

Kuechly³

et al. 2020

Sensors

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“…36,37 As the most mature area of CR research, many researchers in America have already explored the framework, antecedent and consequent under the risk events. 38,39 Research on CR in Australia appeared in 2008 and has developed rapidly in the past five years. 40 Similar to the theme of research in the United States, disaster is a hot topic in the research of CR in Australia (the second most prominent theme on the map).…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring Two Decades of Research in Community Resilience: A Content Analysis Across the International Literature

Fan¹,

Lyu²

2021

PRBM

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Introduction:Community resilience (CR) has gradually become a hot topic in uncertain times, especially in the last five years. The current study presents a systematic review based on content analysis to present a knowledge graph of CR research over the last 20 years. Methods: We use an approach of Leximancer to conduct the content analysis to explore the intellectual foundations, research context, topics, and methods of CR literature based on 583 published studies. Results:The results show that framework research of CR is a hot topic throughout the last 20 years. In the first stage (from 2001 to 2015), CR connected with the themes of "framework, disaster, change, and model". Comparatively, in the second stage (from 2016 to 2020), the themes of "social capital, capacity, and framework" are more salient connecting with CR. Additionally, the study detected that the key issues varied across countries. Specifically, research in the US focused on the social support dynamic, while in Australia, recovery from the disaster was the predominant theme. Furthermore, in the UK, studies mostly explore resilience issues in the background related to flooding. Discussion: Our findings provide a comprehensive picture of CR research covering the last 20 years and put forward thoughts and recommendations for future resilience studies considering 1) obstacles within daily life, 2) resilience set within organizational perspectives, and 3) cultural context.

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“…The relationship between communities’ risk perceptions and resilience was investigated, and the results showed that community capital and economic resilience could strengthen perceptions of hurricane risks [ 128 ]. A quantitative framework to model recovery patterns of economic activity was introduced and applied in a retrospective study of Hurricane Katrina, which provides actionable information for prompting resilience in diverse communities and different phases of a disaster [ 129 ]. Additionally, the resilient post-earthquake recovery was also discussed, including critical factors in contributing to resilient recovery [ 130 ], the role of institutional initiatives and the communities’ response to earthquake disaster [ 131 ], the relevance of earthquake-stricken resilience and disaster risk reduction efforts [ 132 ], and the short- and long-term societal impact of prolonged power outages caused by disasters [ 133 ].…”

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A Scientometric Review of Urban Disaster Resilience Research

Yang

Tan

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Natural disasters and human-made disasters are threatening urban areas globally. The resilience capacity of the urban system plays an important role in disaster risk response and recovery. Strengthening urban disaster resilience is also fundamental to ensuring sustainable development. Various practices and research for enhancing urban disaster resilience have been carried out worldwide but are yet to be reviewed. Accordingly, this paper gives a scientometric review of urban disaster resilience research by using CiteSpace. The time span (January 2001–January 2021) was selected and divided into three phases based on the number of publications. In addition, according to keyword statistics and clustering results, the collected articles are grouped into four hotspot topics: disaster risk reduction, specific disaster resilience research, resilience assessment, and combination research. The results show that most of the existing research is in the first two categories, and articles in the second and fourth categories both show a high growth rate and could be further research directions. The review indicates that urban disaster resilience is essential for a city’s sustainable development. Moreover, the findings provide scholars a full picture of the existing urban disaster resilience research which can help them identify promising research directions. The findings can also help urban government officials and policymakers review current urban disaster management strategies and make further improvements.

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Observing community resilience from space: Using nighttime lights to model economic disturbance and recovery pattern in natural disaster

Cited by 105 publications

References 60 publications

Reducing Variability and Removing Natural Light from Nighttime Satellite Imagery: A Case Study Using the VIIRS DNB

Reducing Variability and Removing Natural Light from Nighttime Satellite Imagery: A Case Study Using the VIIRS DNB

Exploring Two Decades of Research in Community Resilience: A Content Analysis Across the International Literature

A Scientometric Review of Urban Disaster Resilience Research

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