Using VIIRS Day/Night Band to Measure Electricity Supply Reliability: Preliminary Results from Maharashtra, India
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Representativeness
2.3. Remote Sensing
2.4. Voltage Monitors
2.5. Power Outage Classifier
2.6. Individual Power Outages and Power Outage Rates
2.7. Sensitivity Analysis
2.8. Validation
3. Results
3.1. Representativeness
3.2. Individual Power Outages
3.3. Power Outage Rates
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Predicted | ||||
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No Lights | Lights On | Outage | ||
Actual | No Lights | 1741 | 0 | 0 |
Lights On | 0 | 1737 | 48 | |
Outage | 0 | 83 | 31 | |
Overall Error Rate: 2.69% |
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Mann, M.L.; Melaas, E.K.; Malik, A. Using VIIRS Day/Night Band to Measure Electricity Supply Reliability: Preliminary Results from Maharashtra, India. Remote Sens. 2016, 8, 711. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8090711
Mann ML, Melaas EK, Malik A. Using VIIRS Day/Night Band to Measure Electricity Supply Reliability: Preliminary Results from Maharashtra, India. Remote Sensing. 2016; 8(9):711. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8090711
Chicago/Turabian StyleMann, Michael L., Eli K. Melaas, and Arun Malik. 2016. "Using VIIRS Day/Night Band to Measure Electricity Supply Reliability: Preliminary Results from Maharashtra, India" Remote Sensing 8, no. 9: 711. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8090711