The discipline of land change science has been evolving rapidly in the past decades.
Remote sensing played a major role in one of the essential components of land change …

Drylands make up roughly 40% of the Earth's land surface, and billions of people depend on
services provided by these critically important ecosystems. Despite their relatively sparse …

NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite (VNP46) is available at 500 m resolution
since January 2012 with data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) …

Satellite observations of nighttime lights (NTL) from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS
Day/Night Band data have been widely used to estimate human activities. Long-term …

The released VIIRS DNB nightly images, also known as VIIRS DNB daily nighttime images,
provide rich information for time series analysis of global socioeconomic dynamics …

Land surface phenology (LSP) has been widely retrieved from time series of various satellite
instruments in order to monitor climate change and ecosystem dynamics. However, any …

Vegetation phenology is widely acknowledged to be a sensitive indicator of the response of
ecosystems to climate change, and phenological shifts have been shown to exert substantial …

Land surface phenology (LSP) provides critical information for investigating vegetation
growth and development, studying ecosystem biodiversity, modeling terrestrial carbon and …

Remote sensing, or Earth Observation (EO), is increasingly used to understand Earth system
dynamics and create continuous and categorical maps of biophysical properties and land …

This paper provides a review and summary status of the research underway by the NASA
Terra Aqua Suomi-NPP Land Discipline Team to provide continuity of global land data …