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] 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 …

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 …

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 …

A global record of annual urban dynamics (1992–2013) from nighttime lights

Y Zhou, X Li, GR Asrar, SJ Smith, M Imhoff - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The nighttime light (NTL) observations from Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program/Operational Linescane System (DMSP/OLS) offer great potentials to study urban …

[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 …

Mangroves shelter coastal economic activity from cyclones

JP Hochard, S Hamilton… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Mangroves shelter coastlines during hazardous storm events with coastal communities
experiencing mangrove deforestation are increasingly vulnerable to economic damages …

[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 framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound

JP Swaddle, CD Francis, JR Barber, CB Cooper… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Human activities have caused a near-ubiquitous and evolutionarily-unprecedented increase
in environmental sound levels and artificial night lighting. These stimuli reorganize …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating global economic well-being with unlit settlements

I McCallum, CCM Kyba, JCL Bayas… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
It is well established that nighttime radiance, measured from satellites, correlates with
economic prosperity across the globe. In developing countries, areas with low levels of …