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 survey of visual transformers

Y Liu, Y Zhang, Y Wang, F Hou, J Yuan… - … on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

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 …

Synergy level of pollution and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: Spatial-temporal evolution characteristics and driving factors

S Chen, Z Tan, S Mu, J Wang, Y Chen, X He - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Achieving synergistic control of air pollution and carbon emissions is crucial for addressing
environmental changes. This study aims to assess the synergy level of pollution and carbon …

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 …

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 …

Differential characteristics of carbon emission efficiency and coordinated emission reduction pathways under different stages of economic development: evidence from …

C Liu, W Sun, P Li, L Zhang, M Li - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Regional carbon emission efficiency (CEE) has differentiated characteristics under different
economic development stages and patterns, and identifying such characteristics is important …

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 …

City-level climate change mitigation in China

Y Shan, D Guan, K Hubacek, B Zheng, SJ Davis… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
As national efforts to reduce CO2 emissions intensify, policy-makers need increasingly
specific, subnational information about the sources of CO2 and the potential reductions and …