Detection of open-air weekly markets using remote sensing techniques

Open-air markets play a vital role in food security, nutrition, and local economies, yet their spatiotemporal dynamics remain poorly understood. This study explores the use of Sentinel-1 SAR data to detect open-air markets operating weekly by identifying consistent changes in backscatter properties....

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Autores principales: Reymondin, Louis, Vantalon, Thibaud
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163134
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Vantalon, Thibaud
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description Open-air markets play a vital role in food security, nutrition, and local economies, yet their spatiotemporal dynamics remain poorly understood. This study explores the use of Sentinel-1 SAR data to detect open-air markets operating weekly by identifying consistent changes in backscatter properties. The method was tested in regions with known market locations, including San Francisco el Alto, Guatemala, and Montpellier, France, where it successfully identified market activity and related patterns. It was then scaled to a national level in Rwanda by limiting the analysis to bare soil and built-up areas using Google Dynamic World V1 land cover data. The results were promising, identifying several markets and providing a foundation for further refinement. However, the approach requires improvements to differentiate markets from other areas with weekly patterns, such as parking lots and construction sites, and thorough validation across diverse contexts. This study demonstrates the potential of remote sensing to characterize open-air markets and their temporal dynamics, contributing valuable data to food system models in data-scarce regions.
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spelling CGSpace1631342025-11-05T11:24:33Z Detection of open-air weekly markets using remote sensing techniques Reymondin, Louis Vantalon, Thibaud markets remote sensing Open-air markets play a vital role in food security, nutrition, and local economies, yet their spatiotemporal dynamics remain poorly understood. This study explores the use of Sentinel-1 SAR data to detect open-air markets operating weekly by identifying consistent changes in backscatter properties. The method was tested in regions with known market locations, including San Francisco el Alto, Guatemala, and Montpellier, France, where it successfully identified market activity and related patterns. It was then scaled to a national level in Rwanda by limiting the analysis to bare soil and built-up areas using Google Dynamic World V1 land cover data. The results were promising, identifying several markets and providing a foundation for further refinement. However, the approach requires improvements to differentiate markets from other areas with weekly patterns, such as parking lots and construction sites, and thorough validation across diverse contexts. This study demonstrates the potential of remote sensing to characterize open-air markets and their temporal dynamics, contributing valuable data to food system models in data-scarce regions. 2024-11-27 2024-12-06T09:33:18Z 2024-12-06T09:33:18Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163134 en Open Access application/pdf Reymondin, L.; Vantalon, T. (2024) Detection of open-air weekly markets using remote sensing techniques. Working Paper. 14 p.
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Detection of open-air weekly markets using remote sensing techniques
title Detection of open-air weekly markets using remote sensing techniques
title_full Detection of open-air weekly markets using remote sensing techniques
title_fullStr Detection of open-air weekly markets using remote sensing techniques
title_full_unstemmed Detection of open-air weekly markets using remote sensing techniques
title_short Detection of open-air weekly markets using remote sensing techniques
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remote sensing
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