Scientific contributions from remote sensing over the last fifty years have significantly
advanced our understanding of urban areas. Key contributions of urban remote sensing …

Since the late 1990s, remotely sensed night-time lights (NTL) satellite imagery has been
shown to correlate with socioeconomic parameters including urbanization, economic …

The nighttime light (NTL) satellite data have been widely used to investigate urbanization
process. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System …

ABSTRACT The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB)
collects global low-light imaging data that have significant improvements over comparable …

High resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions are vital for
measuring impacts of population growth, monitoring human-environment interactions and …

Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of geography, forestry,
ecology, geographic information science, remote sensing, and photogrammetric …

Population numbers at local levels are fundamental data for many applications, including
the delivery and planning of services, election preparation, and response to disasters. In …

Recent years have seen substantial growth in openly available satellite and other geospatial
data layers, which represent a range of metrics relevant to global human population …

Nighttime lights, calculated from weather satellite recordings, are increasingly used by social
scientists as a proxy for economic activity or economic development in subnational regions …

Remote sensing image products (eg brightness of nighttime lights and land cover/land use
types) have been widely used to disaggregate census data to produce gridded population …