Earth Nighttime Lights

Original Works

Nicola Pestalozzi has completed a remarkable quantitative Master Thesis on Earth Nighttime Lights to study economic and urban growth. (November 2012)
The most important and striking results of the master thesis were written down in a external page"Scientific article"

You find extensive material of this work on the website http://www.worldatnight.ethz.ch/. Especially the Videos Page shows some remarkable results of global dynamics over the past two decades.

Newspaper Coverage

N. Pestalozzi, P. Cauwels, D. Sornette, the Atlantic CITIES, Jobs & Economies (20 March 2013)
external pageBooming Asian Cities Are Tugging The World's Center of Light East

N. Pestalozzi, P. Cauwels, D. Sornette, The Atlantic (14 March 2013)
external pageThese Incredible Light Photos Tell Us Which Economies Are Growing

N. Pestalozzi, P. Cauwels, D. Sornette, MIT Technology Review, the Physics arXiv Blog (14 March 2013)
external pageGlobal Night Light Patterns Reveal Economic Shift to the East