Aladdin’s Magic Lamp: Active Target Calibration of the DMSP OLS [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2014 Nighttime satellite imagery from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Programs’ Operational Linescan System (DMSP OLS) is being used for myriad applications including population mapping, characterizing economic activity, disaggregate estimation of CO2 ...
Benjamin T Tuttle +2 more
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DMSP-OLS Radiance Calibrated Nighttime Lights Time Series with Intercalibration [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2015 The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) stable lights products are made using operational OLS data collected at high gain settings, resulting in sensor saturation on brightly lit areas, such as city centers ...
Feng-Chi Hsu +2 more
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Application of DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Images: A Meta-Analysis and a Systematic Literature Review [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2014 Since the release of the digital archives of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Line Scanner (DMSP/OLS) nighttime light data in 1992, a variety of datasets based on this database have been produced and applied to monitor and analyze ...
Qingxu Huang +2 more
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Evaluation of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data for Mapping Global Fossil Fuel Combustion CO2 Emissions: A Comparison with DMSP-OLS Nighttime Light Data. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recently, the stable light products and radiance calibrated products from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) have been useful for mapping global fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at fine spatial ...
Jinpei Ou +4 more
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Using Multi-Source Geospatial Information to Reduce the Saturation Problem of DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Data [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2022 The DMSP/OLS Nighttime light (NTL) data directly reflect the spatial distribution and light intensity of artificial lighting from the Earth’s surface at night, and has become an emerging instrument for urbanization research, including in the monitoring ...
Qifei Zhang +4 more
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Impact of Image Saturation on Radiometric Intercalibration of DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Images [PDF]
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2021 This article aims to evaluate impact of image saturation on radiometric intercalibration of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) stable nighttime light (NTL) images.
Hanrui Cao, Xi Li, Zhe Tong
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Identifying and Correcting Signal Shift in DMSP-OLS Data [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2020 Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) nighttime light data has become a key tool of the environmental and social scientific fields, but suffers from several validity problems. We highlight one such problem—shifts
Konstantin Ash, Kevin Mazur
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Constructing a New Inter-Calibration Method for DMSP-OLS and NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2020 The anthropogenic nighttime light (NTL) data that are acquired by satellites can characterize the intensity of human activities on the ground. It has been widely used in urban development assessment, socioeconomic estimate, and other applications ...
Jinji Ma +4 more
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Measurement of blooming effect of DMSP-OLS nighttime light data based on NPP-VIIRS data
Annals of GIS, 2019 Nighttime light (NTL) imagery offers important data for socio-economic research since it depicts human activities at night. Blooming effect is one of the main problems of DMSP-OLS NTL data, but the problem has been largely mitigated in NPP-VIIRS data ...
Xiaolin Zhu, Xin Cao, Jin Chen
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Remote Sensing, 2015 Mapping Impervious Surface Area (ISA) at regional and global scales has attracted increasing interest. DMSP-OLS nighttime light (NTL) data have proven to be successful for mapping urban land in large areas.
Xiaoping Liu, Guohua Hu, Bin Ai
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