Open AccessResearch on energy consumption of China’s prefecture-level scale based on DMSP/OLS night light data
Author(s) -
Zhao Xu,
Baoguo Shan,
Zhang Chenglong,
Jinhui Duan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/677/4/042036
Subject(s) - energy consumption , china , consumption (sociology) , scale (ratio) , energy (signal processing) , environmental science , environmental economics , econometrics , computer science , statistics , meteorology , geography , economics , mathematics , engineering , cartography , social science , archaeology , sociology , electrical engineering
Energy is an important support for the development of national economy. Accurate and convenient access to space-time dynamic information of energy consumption is of great significance for the rational formulation of energy policy. Based on the quantitative correlation between DMSP/OLS night lighting data and energy statistics, the spatial pattern of energy consumption in China from 2000 to 2013 was simulated at the prefecture-level scale. The results show that it is feasible to simulate energy consumption in different cities in China based on DMSP/OLS night lighting data, which can reliably reflect the temporal and spatial dynamics of energy consumption. This study provides a new method support for dynamic monitoring of energy consumption.