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 …

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 …

Global 1 km× 1 km gridded revised real gross domestic product and electricity consumption during 1992–2019 based on calibrated nighttime light data

J Chen, M Gao, S Cheng, W Hou, M Song, X Liu, Y Liu - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
As fundamental data, gross domestic product (GDP) and electricity consumption can be
used to effectively evaluate economic status and living standards of residents. Some …

County-level CO2 emissions and sequestration in China during 1997–2017

J Chen, M Gao, S Cheng, W Hou, M Song, X Liu, Y Liu… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
With the implementation of China's top-down CO2 emissions reduction strategy, the regional
differences should be considered. As the most basic governmental unit in China, counties …

Annual time series of global VIIRS nighttime lights derived from monthly averages: 2012 to 2019

CD Elvidge, M Zhizhin, T Ghosh, FC Hsu, J Taneja - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
A consistently processed annual global nighttime lights time series (2012–2019) was
produced using monthly cloud-free radiance averages made from low light imaging …

Managing the middle: A shift in conservation priorities based on the global human modification gradient

CM Kennedy, JR Oakleaf, DM Theobald… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
An increasing number of international initiatives aim to reconcile development with
conservation. Crucial to successful implementation of these initiatives is a comprehensive …

Artificially lit surface of Earth at night increasing in radiance and extent

CCM Kyba, T Kuester, A Sánchez de Miguel… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
A central aim of the “lighting revolution”(the transition to solid-state lighting technology) is
decreased energy consumption. This could be undermined by a rebound effect of increased …

The Open-source Data Inventory for Anthropogenic CO2, version 2016 (ODIAC2016): a global monthly fossil fuel CO2 gridded emissions data product for tracer …

T Oda, S Maksyutov, RJ Andres - Earth System Science Data, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
The Open-source Data Inventory for Anthropogenic CO 2 (ODIAC) is a global high-spatial-
resolution gridded emissions data product that distributes carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions …

Mapping urban dynamics (1992–2018) in Southeast Asia using consistent nighttime light data from DMSP and VIIRS

M Zhao, Y Zhou, X Li, W Cheng, C Zhou, T Ma… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The long-term urban dynamics at regional and global scales is essential to understanding
the urbanization processes and environmental consequences for providing better scientific …

Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009

O Venter, EW Sanderson, A Magrach, JR Allan… - Scientific data, 2016 - nature.com
Remotely-sensed and bottom-up survey information were compiled on eight variables
measuring the direct and indirect human pressures on the environment globally in 1993 and …