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 …

Since the release of the digital archives of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
Operational Line Scanner (DMSP/OLS) nighttime light data in 1992, a variety of datasets …

Artificial lights raise night sky luminance, creating the most visible effect of light pollution—
artificial skyglow. Despite the increasing interest among scientists in fields such as ecology …

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 …

Understanding the causes and potential mitigations of light pollution requires measuring
and monitoring artificial light at night (ALAN). We review how ALAN is measured, both from …

Despite constituting a widespread and significant environmental change, understanding of
artificial nighttime skyglow is extremely limited. Until now, published monitoring studies have …

Human activity is rapidly increasing the negative impact of artificial skyglow at even the most
remote professional observatory sites. Assessment of the actual impact requires an …

Abstract Study Objectives: Our study aims to explore the associations between outdoor
nighttime lights (ONL) and sleep patterns in the human population. Methods: Cross …

Diffuse glow has been observed around brightly lit cities in nighttime satellite imagery since
at least the first publication of large scale maps in the late 1990s. In the literature, this has …

Excessive exposure to ambient light at night is a well-documented hazard to human health,
yet analysts have not examined it from an environmental justice (EJ) perspective. We …