Remote sensing of night lights: A review and an outlook for the future

N Levin, CCM Kyba, Q Zhang, AS de Miguel… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of night light emissions in the visible band offers a unique opportunity to
directly observe human activity from space. This has allowed a host of applications including …

[HTML][HTML] Nighttime light remote sensing for urban applications: Progress, challenges, and prospects

Q Zheng, KC Seto, Y Zhou, S You, Q Weng - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nighttime light (NTL) remote sensing data offer unique capabilities to characterize both the
extent and intensity of human activities and have been extensively used to understand …

A prolonged artificial nighttime-light dataset of China (1984-2020)

L Zhang, Z Ren, B Chen, P Gong, B Xu, H Fu - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Nighttime light remote sensing has been an increasingly important proxy for human
activities. Despite an urgent need for long-term products and pilot explorations in …

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

Z Chen, B Yu, C Yang, Y Zhou, X Qian… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
The nighttime light (NTL) satellite data have been widely used to investigate urbanization
process. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System …

[HTML][HTML] The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use

S Leyk, AE Gaughan, SB Adamo… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
Population data represent an essential component in studies focusing on human–nature
interrelationships, disaster risk assessment and environmental health. Several recent efforts …

Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing

Z Zhu, Y Zhou, KC Seto, EC Stokes, C Deng… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Scientific contributions from remote sensing over the last fifty years have significantly
advanced our understanding of urban areas. Key contributions of urban remote sensing …

[HTML][HTML] Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications

SL Ustin, EM Middleton - Ecological Processes, 2021 - Springer
There is an unprecedented array of new satellite technologies with capabilities for
advancing our understanding of ecological processes and the changing composition of the …

Applications of satellite remote sensing of nighttime light observations: Advances, challenges, and perspectives

M Zhao, Y Zhou, X Li, W Cao, C He, B Yu, X Li… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
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 …

Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics

MM Bennett, LC Smith - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the late 1990s, remotely sensed night-time lights (NTL) satellite imagery has been
shown to correlate with socioeconomic parameters including urbanization, economic …

[PDF][PDF] 基于DMSP/OLS 数据的中国城市化过程研究

陈晋, 卓莉, 史培军, 一之濑, 俊明 - 遥感学报, 2003 - ygxb.ac.cn
基于DMSP/OLS 非辐射定标的夜间灯光平均强度数据构建了一个反映区域城市化水平的灯光
指数, 并分析了该灯光指数与城市化水平在省级尺度上的相关性. 研究表明 …