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 …

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly accepted the 2030 Development
Agenda, which has included 92 paragraphs, and the Paragraph 91 defined 17 sustainable …

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

Timely and accurate extraction of urban built-up areas is crucial to addressing
environmental problems related to fast changes in urban land cover, which is fundamental …

NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite (VNP46) is available at 500 m resolution
since January 2012 with data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) …

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 …

Energy consumption may play different roles at different stages of urbanization and
economic growth. Given China's rapid economic development and urbanization process …

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 …

Abstract Evaluation of environmental vulnerability over large areas is a difficult and complex
process because it is affected by many variables. Few research on environmental …

Abstract The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has the most fragile ecosystems in the world.
Over the past decades, QTP is suffering from increasing external pressures of climate …