This post examines one other method that some have used to measure Chinese economic activity - one based on the intensity of man-made night lights (luminosity),as discussed in an article in The Regional Economist.
“Unlike indexes of human-produced economic data, these data are immune to falsification or misreporting," wrote Assistant Vice President and Economist Michael Owyang and Senior Research Associate Hannah Shell.Luminosity
The authors explained that the night-lights data are gathered by Air Force satellites that have been circling the earth 14 times a day since the 1970s, which measure the light intensity emanating from specific geographic pixels.
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