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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, Song Hong, Xiaoxiao Niu, Qian Wu, Yanmei Zhong, Huan Yang, Haoran Zhang   +6 more
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Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of Nighttime Light Observations: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives

Remote Sensing, 2019
Nighttime light observations from remote sensing provide us with a timely and spatially explicit measure of human activities, and therefore enable a host of applications such as tracking urbanization and socioeconomic dynamics, evaluating armed conflicts
Min Zhao, Yuyu Zhou, Xuecao Li, Wenting Cao, Chunyang He, Bailang Yu, Xi Li, Christopher D. Elvidge, Weiming Cheng, Chenghu Zhou   +9 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, Xiaoping Liu, Xia Li, Meifang Li, Wenkai Li   +4 more
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Research Progress, Hotspots, and Evolution of Nighttime Light Pollution: Analysis Based on WOS Database and Remote Sensing Data

Remote Sensing, 2023
With the rapid development of the global economy, the over-expansion of outdoor artificial light at night (ALAN) in cities has led to increasingly severe light pollution worldwide.
Chenhao Huang, Yang Ye, Yanhua Jin, Bangli Liang   +3 more
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The Uncertainty of Nighttime Light Data in Estimating Carbon Dioxide Emissions in China: A Comparison between DMSP-OLS and NPP-VIIRS

Remote Sensing, 2017
Nighttime light data can characterize urbanization, economic development, population density, energy consumption and other human activities. Additionally, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are closely related to the scope and intensity of human activities ...
Xiwen Zhang, Jiansheng Wu, Jian Peng, Qiwen Cao   +3 more
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Investigating the performance of SDGSAT-1/GIU and NPP/VIIRS nighttime light data in representing nighttime vitality and its relationship with the built environment: A comparative study in Shanghai, China

Ecological Indicators
In recent years, a substantial body of research has demonstrated the close relationship between the built environment and urban nighttime vitality. While scholars have established slightly varied evaluation systems for the built environment, most have ...
Qiyuan Xie, Chenfan Cai, Yichen Jiang, Hongyu Zhang, Zhijie Wu, Jing Xu   +5 more
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Evaluating the Ability of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data to Estimate the Gross Domestic Product and the Electric Power Consumption of China at Multiple Scales: A Comparison with DMSP-OLS Data

Remote Sensing, 2014
The nighttime light data records artificial light on the Earth’s surface and can be used to estimate the spatial distribution of the gross domestic product (GDP) and the electric power consumption (EPC).
Kaifang Shi, Bailang Yu, Yixiu Huang, Yingjie Hu, Bing Yin, Zuoqi Chen, Liujia Chen, Jianping Wu   +7 more
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Nighttime luminosity transitions are tightly spatiotemporally correlated with land use changes: A pixelwise case study in Beijing, China

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Nighttime light data and land use data derived from remote sensing satellites are commonly used to monitor human activities on the Earth. A thorough understanding of the spatiotemporal interactions between these data enables better characterization and ...
Junfu Fan, Qingyun Liu, Zhoupeng Ren, Zheng Chen, Wenqiang Li, Yong Yu, Yuke Zhou   +6 more
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Correlation Analysis of CO₂ Concentration Based on DMSP-OLS and NPP-VIIRS Integrated Data

Remote Sensing, 2022
In view of global warming, caused by the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases, China has proposed a series of carbon emission reduction policies.
Chen Zuo, Wei Gong, Zhiyu Gao, Deyi Kong, Ruyi Wei, Xin Ma   +5 more
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Evaluating the Ability of NOAA-20 Monthly Composite Data for Socioeconomic Indicators Estimation and Urban Area Extraction

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2022
The new visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS) onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-20 satellite (NOAA-20) is capable of imaging the Earth during both daytime and nighttime.
Yangguang Li, Zhichao Song, Bin Wu, Bailang Yu, Qiusheng Wu, Yuchen Hong, Shaoyang Liu, Jianping Wu   +7 more
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