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 …

论夜光遥感数据挖掘

李德仁, 李熙 - 测绘学报, 2015 - xb.chinasmp.com
如果从地球上空观测夜间的地球, 可以发现人类聚居区和经济带发出夺目的光芒.
当夜间的天空无云时, 遥感卫星能够捕捉到城镇灯光, 渔船灯光, 火点等可见光辐射源 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning for urban land use category classification: A review and experimental assessment

Z Li, B Chen, S Wu, M Su, JM Chen, B Xu - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mapping the distribution, pattern, and composition of urban land use categories plays a
valuable role in understanding urban environmental dynamics and facilitating sustainable …

[HTML][HTML] How to measure light pollution—A systematic review of methods and applications

S Mander, F Alam, R Lovreglio, M Ooi - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is ever-present in modern society and has revolutionised our
lives. Along with its many benefits, ALAN can have adverse effects that are studied across …

[HTML][HTML] 夜间灯光遥感与城市问题研究: 数据, 方法, 应用和展望

余柏蒗, 王丛笑, 宫文康, 陈佐旗, 施开放, 吴宾… - 遥感学报, 2021 - ygxb.ac.cn
夜间灯光遥感是能够探测夜间微光的光学遥感技术, 可获取白天遥感无法获取的信息.
由于城市区域的人造光源是夜间稳定亮光的主要来源, 夜间灯光遥感影像已被证明可以更直观地 …

A global analysis of factors controlling VIIRS nighttime light levels from densely populated areas

N Levin, Q Zhang - Remote sensing of environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of nighttime lights has been shown as a good surrogate for estimating
population and economic activity at national and sub-national scales, using DMSP satellites …

Temporal expansion of the nighttime light images of SDGSAT-1 satellite in illuminating ground object extraction by joint observation of NPP-VIIRS and sentinel-2A …

B Yu, F Chen, C Ye, Z Li, Y Dong, N Wang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Poverty is the leading cause of social instability around the world. Reducing poverty has
become a crucial objective for global sustainable development. Timely and consistently …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution imagery of earth at night: New sources, opportunities and challenges

C Kyba, S Garz, H Kuechly, AS De Miguel, J Zamorano… - Remote sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
Images of the Earth at night are an exceptional source of human geographical data,
because artificial light highlights human activity in a way that daytime scenes do not. The …