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Aladdin’s Magic Lamp: Active Target Calibration of the DMSP OLS

open access: yesRemote 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 ...
Paul C Sutton   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

DMSP-OLS Radiance Calibrated Nighttime Lights Time Series With Intercalibration

open access: yesRemote 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
exaly   +4 more sources

Inter-Calibration of DMSP-OLS and SNPP-VIIRS-DNB Annual Nighttime Light Composites Using Machine Learning

open access: yesGIScience and Remote Sensing, 2020
The satellite-based nighttime lights (NTL) data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS), available in the public domain from 1992 to 2013, are extensively used for socio-economic studies.
Prasun Kumar Gupta   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Application of DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Images: A Meta-Analysis and a Systematic Literature Review [PDF]

open access: yesRemote 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 ...
Yuanyuan Zhao, Qingxu Huang
exaly   +4 more sources

A Normalized Urban Areas Composite Index (NUACI) Based on Combination of DMSP-OLS and MODIS for Mapping Impervious Surface Area

open access: yesRemote 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.
Guohua Hu, Qian Shi, Bin Ai
exaly   +4 more sources

An Optimized Approach for Extracting Urban Land Based on Log-Transformed DMSP-OLS Nighttime Light, NDVI, and NDWI

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
Quantitative and accurate urban land information on regional and global scales is urgently required for studying socioeconomic and eco-environmental problems.
Yuanmao Zheng   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

ANALYSIS OF LIGHT INTENSITY DATA BY THE DMSP/OLS SATELLITE IMAGE USING EXISTING SPATIAL DATA FOR MONITORING HUMAN ACTIVITY IN JAPAN [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012
The main objective of this research is to show how much can be monitored various human activities using night light images by the DMSP/OLS from NOAA/NGDC.
Y. Akiyama
doaj   +2 more sources

Measurement of Blooming Effect of DMSP-OLS Nighttime Light Data Based on NPP-VIIRS Data

open access: yesAnnals 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 ...
Xin Cao, Xiaolin Zhu, Jin Chen
exaly   +3 more sources

Multi-nighttime-light data comparison analysis based on image quality values and lit fishing vessel identification effect

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Fisheries provide high-quality protein for many people, and their sustainable use is of global concern. Light trapping is a widely used fishing method that takes advantage of the phototropism of fish.
Weifeng Zhou, Huijuan Hu, Tianfei Cheng
doaj   +1 more source

An extended time series (2000–2018) of global NPP-VIIRS-like nighttime light data from a cross-sensor calibration [PDF]

open access: yesEarth System Science Data, 2021
The nighttime light (NTL) satellite data have been widely used to investigate the urbanization process. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) stable nighttime light data and Suomi National Polar-orbiting ...
Z. Chen   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

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