Title
Estimating House Vacancy Rate in Metropolitan Areas Using NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Composite Data
Abstract
House vacancy rate (HVR) is an important index in assessing the healthiness of residential real estate market. Investigating HVR by field survey requires a lot of human and economic resources. The nighttime light (NTL) data, derived from Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, can detect the artificial light from the Earth surface, and have been used to study social-economic activities. This paper proposes a method for estimating the HVR in metropolitan areas using NPP-VIIRS NTL composite data. This method combines NTL composite data with land cover information to extract the light intensity in urbanized areas. Then, we estimate the light intensity values for nonvacancy areas, and use such values to calculate the HVR in corresponding regions. Fifteen metropolitan areas in the United States have been selected for this study, and the estimated HVR values are validated using corresponding statistical data. The experimental results show a strong correlation between our derived HVR values and the statistical data. We also visualize the estimated HVR on maps, and discover that the spatial distribution of HVR is influenced by natural situations as well as the degree of urban development.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2418201
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of  
Keywords
Field
DocType
house vacancy rate (hvr),npp-viirs,usa,nighttime light (ntl) composite data,earth,statistical analysis,human resource,spatial resolution,graphical models,remote sensing,data mining,data analysis,estimation,metropolitan area,urban development
Real estate,Field survey,Remote sensing,Metropolitan area,Land cover,Mathematics,Spatial distribution
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1939-1404
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.87
12
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
zuoqi chen110910.73
Bailang Yu227021.67
Yingjie Hu341739.76
Chang Huang4333.15
Kaifang Shi511211.71
Jianping Wu6566.36