Artificial light at night: a global disruptor of the night-time environment

S Bará, F Falchi - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Light pollution is the alteration of the natural levels of darkness by an increased
concentration of light particles in the night-time environment, resulting from human activity …

Dry growing seasons predicted Central American migration to the US from 2012 to 2018

A Linke, S Leutert, J Busby, M Duque, M Shawcroft… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Controlling for factors such as criminal violence and poverty, we tested if drier than usual
growing season weather was a predictor of emigration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and …

Development of a regional solid waste management framework and its application to a prairie province in central Canada

N Karimi, KTW Ng, A Richter - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Landfilling continues to be one of the most popular waste treatment methods in Canada or
abroad. NIMBYism has forced waste facilities to be sited further from populated centers …

Map** impervious surface area increase and urban pluvial flooding using Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) and remote sensing data

MN Ahmad, Z Shao, A Javed - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Expansion of urban impervious surface (UIA) and increased urban pluvial flooding (UPF)
have an impact on urban dynamics, socioeconomic activities, and our environment …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced human fecundity attributable to ambient fine particles in low-and middle-income countries

M Tong, H Lu, H Xu, X Fan, JJ Zhang, FJ Kelly… - Environment …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) has been associated with
reduced human fecundity. However, the attributable burden has not been estimated for low …

Potential of using night-time light to proxy social indicators for sustainable development

A Andries, S Morse, RJ Murphy, J Sadhukhan… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Satellite-observed night-time light (NTL) data provide a measure of the lighting brightness
seen from space at different times and spatial and temporal resolutions, thus offering …

Transportation infrastructure and economic growth: Evidence from" new nighttime light data" in the Yangtze River Delta

C Huang, H Zhu, M Su - PLoS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The enhancement and improvement of China's high-speed rail network plays a crucial role
in promoting sustainable economic growth in the region. By utilizing" new nighttime light …

[HTML][HTML] Geospatial intelligence framework for BTS infrastructure planning toward universal internet access target in Indonesia

AD Sakti, IGA Andani, AD Putri, MR Zakiar… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Equitable internet coverage has emerged as a key global priority, which is essential for
promoting inclusive and sustainable development. The Indonesian government aims to …

Map** gross domestic product distribution at 1 km resolution across thailand using the Random Forest Area-to-area regression kriging model

Y **, Y Ge, H Fan, Z Li, Y Liu, Y Jia - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Accurate spatial distribution of gridded gross domestic product (GDP) data is crucial for
revealing regional disparities within administrative units, thus facilitating a deeper …

Spatiotemporal Change of Eco-Environmental Quality in the Oasis City and Its Correlation with Urbanization Based on RSEI: A Case Study of Urumqi, China

J Zhang, Q Zhou, M Cao, H Liu - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
As an important node city of “The Belt and Road” strategy, Urumqi has a non-negligible
impact on the ecological environment in the process of rapid development. It is of great …