Estimating municipal economic activity: an alternative data-based approach

The data originates from two sources. The territorial grids, including the limits of the Belo Horizonte microregion and the municipalities were obtained from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Related link 1). Estimates of population size and Gross Domestic Product of municipalities were obtained from IBGE (Related links 2 and 3). Satellite images were obtained from the United States Geological Survey (USGS, Related link 4). Images from the Landsat-8 satellite, OLI Sensor of the Collection-2 Level-2, spatial resolution of 30 meters were used. Collection-2 Level-2 images are atmospheric-corrected surface reflectance images. The dates of the images are July 6, 2018 and August 15, 2021.