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 …

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

This study presents a global land projection dataset with a 1-km resolution that comprises 20
land types for 2015–2100, adopting the latest IPCC coupling socioeconomic and climate …

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

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 …

Human-mediated transport beyond biogeographic barriers has led to the introduction and
establishment of alien species in new regions worldwide. However, we lack a global picture …

Urban heat island (UHI) is a major anthropogenic alteration on Earth environments and its
geospatial pattern remains poorly understood over large areas. Using MODIS data from …

We develop a statistical framework to use satellite data on night lights to augment official
income growth measures. For countries with poor national income accounts, the optimal …

GDP per capita and household survey means present conflicting pictures of the rate of
economic development in emerging countries. One of the areas in which the national …

To enhance global water use assessment, the WaterGAP3 model was improved for back-
calculating domestic, manufacturing and thermoelectric water uses until 1950 for 177 …