Mapping of nighttime light trends and refugee population changes in Ukraine during the Russian–Ukrainian War [PDF]
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 The nighttime lights accurately and coherently depict how humans live. This study uses nighttime light measurements to quantify changes in nighttime lighting and refugee population in Ukraine before and after the war.
Chaoqing Huang +6 more
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Does Light Pollution Affect Nighttime Ground-Level Ozone Concentrations?
Atmosphere, 2022 Ground-level ozone (O3) is mainly produced during daytime in the presence of ultraviolet (UV) light and later destroyed by nitrogen oxides during nighttime.
Syabiha Shith +5 more
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Urban Land Extraction Using VIIRS Nighttime Light Data: An Evaluation of Three Popular Methods
Remote Sensing, 2017 Timely and accurate extraction of urban land area using the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nighttime light data is important for urban studies.
Yinyin Dou +3 more
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Ongoing Conflict Makes Yemen Dark: From the Perspective of Nighttime Light
Remote Sensing, 2017 The Yemen conflict has caused a severe humanitarian crisis. This study aims to evaluate the Yemen crisis by making use of time series nighttime light images from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite ...
Wei Jiang +3 more
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Planar Block Adjustment for China’s Land Regions with LuoJia1-01 Nighttime Light Imagery
Remote Sensing, 2019 The Luojia1-01 satellite provides high-resolution, high-sensitivity nighttime light data at a resolution of 130 m. To effectively use the Luojia1-01 nighttime light data for global applications, the problems of relative and absolute positioning accuracy ...
Xin Li +6 more
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Where Does Nighttime Light Come From? Insights from Source Detection and Error Attribution [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2020 Nighttime light remote sensing has aroused great popularity because of its advantage in estimating socioeconomic indicators and quantifying human activities in response to the changing world.
Zhehao Ren, Yufu Liu, Bin Chen, Bing Xu
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Global spatial patterns between nighttime light intensity and urban building morphology
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2023 The comprehensive characterization of global urbanization requires consideration of both human activities and urban physical structures. Both human activities and urban physical structures exhibit regular self-similar patterns, yet the spatial patterns ...
Bin Wu +5 more
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Crime under the Light? Examining the Effects of Nighttime Lighting on Crime in China
Land, 2022 With Chinese people’s increasing willingness to participate in night activities, local governments have begun regarding the nighttime economy as an important means to stimulate urban vitality and increase social employment.
Chong Peng, Weizeng Sun, Xi Zhang
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Remote Sensing, 2018 Intraregional spatial variations of satellite-derived anthropogenic nighttime light signals are gradually applied to identify different lighting areas with various socioeconomic activity and urbanization levels when characterizing urbanization dynamics ...
Min Zhao +5 more
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Use of Nighttime Light Images in Evaluating Refugee Settlement
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote SensingIn recent years, due to growing number of humanitarian disasters, international attention to refugees has increased. However, many refugee settlements are located in remote areas and there is a lack of relevant surveying data, which leads to the ...
Shiyu Wang, Xi Li
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