Derived map of global electricity transmission and distribution lines

Overview: Global results from gridfinder model, produced by ESMAP based on joint work with Facebook and others. Uses night-time lights, road networks and existing grid network data to predict the location of transmission and distribution lines globally. Validated in several countries with ~70% accuracy at 1 km. More information: Blog with brief overview: https://blogs.worldbank.org/energy/using-night-lights-map-electrical-gri... Full research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0347-4 Visualization: https://gridfinder.org/ The following data are included: grid.gpkg: Vectorized predicted distribution and transmission line network, with existing OpenStreetMap lines tagged in the 'source' column targets.tif: Binary aster showing locations predicted to be connected to distribution grid. lv.tif: Raster of predicted low-voltage infrastructure in kilometres per cell.

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Author C Arderne
Maintainer None
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Last Updated October 13, 2023, 13:28 (UTC)
Created March 11, 2020, 16:29 (UTC)
Topic Transmission and distribution
Country Aruba; Afghanistan; Angola; Anguilla; Albania; Andorra; United Arab Emirates; Argentina; Armenia; American Samoa; Antigua and Barbuda; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Burundi; Belgium; Benin; Burkina Faso; Bangladesh; Bulgaria; Bahrain; Bahamas; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belarus; Belize; Bermuda; Bolivia, Plurinational State of; Brazil; Barbados; Brunei Darussalam; Bhutan; Botswana; Central African Republic; Canada; Switzerland; Chile; China; Côte d'Ivoire; Cameroon; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Congo; Cook Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Cabo Verde; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curaçao; Cayman Islands; Cyprus; Czechia; Germany; Djibouti; Dominica; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Algeria; Ecuador; Egypt; Eritrea; Spain; Estonia; Ethiopia; Finland; Fiji; France; Faroe Islands; Micronesia, Federated States of; Gabon; United Kingdom; Georgia; Ghana; Gibraltar; Guinea; Gambia; Guinea-Bissau; Equatorial Guinea; Greece; Grenada; Greenland; Guatemala; Guam; Hong Kong; Honduras; Croatia; Haiti; Indonesia; Isle of Man; India; Ireland; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Iceland; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Jordan; Japan; Kyrgyzstan; Cambodia; Kiribati; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Korea, Republic of; Kuwait; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Lebanon; Liberia; Libya; Saint Lucia; Liechtenstein; Sri Lanka; Lesotho; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Latvia; Macao; Morocco; Monaco; Moldova, Republic of; Madagascar; Maldives; Mexico; Marshall Islands; North Macedonia; Mali; Malta; Myanmar; Montenegro; Mongolia; Northern Mariana Islands; Mozambique; Mauritania; Montserrat; Martinique; Mauritius; Malawi; Malaysia; Namibia; New Caledonia; Niger; Nigeria; Nicaragua; Niue; Netherlands; Norway; Nepal; Nauru; New Zealand; Oman; Pakistan; Panama; Peru; Philippines; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Poland; Puerto Rico; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Portugal; Paraguay; Palestine, State of; French Polynesia; Qatar; Romania; Russian Federation; Rwanda; Sudan; Senegal; Singapore; Solomon Islands; Sierra Leone; El Salvador; San Marino; Somalia; Serbia; South Sudan; Sao Tome and Principe; Suriname; Slovakia; Slovenia; Sweden; Eswatini; Seychelles; Syrian Arab Republic; Turks and Caicos Islands; Chad; Togo; Thailand; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Timor-Leste; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Tuvalu; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Ukraine; Uruguay; United States; Uzbekistan; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Viet Nam; Vanuatu; Samoa; Yemen; South Africa; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Published year 2020