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 …

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 …

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 …

NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite

MO Román, Z Wang, Q Sun, V Kalb, SD Miller… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
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) …

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 …

Satellite-based assessment of electricity restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

MO Román, EC Stokes, R Shrestha, Z Wang, L Schultz… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
A real-time understanding of the distribution and duration of power outages after a major
disaster is a precursor to minimizing their harmful consequences. Here, we develop an …

Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of shrinking cities in urbanizing China: A novel approach based on time-series nighttime light data

Y Yang, J Wu, Y Wang, Q Huang, C He - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
The shrinking of cities has become an increasingly global phenomenon, posing challenges
for sustainable urban development. However, most focus remains on Europe and North …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution wall-to-wall land-cover map** and land change assessment for Australia from 1985 to 2015

M Calderón-Loor, M Hadjikakou, BA Bryan - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Computational and data handling limitations have constrained time-series analyses of land-
cover change at high-spatial resolution over large (eg, continental) extents. However, a new …

A global analysis of factors controlling VIIRS nighttime light levels from densely populated areas

N Levin, Q Zhang - Remote sensing of environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of nighttime lights has been shown as a good surrogate for estimating
population and economic activity at national and sub-national scales, using DMSP satellites …

Temporal expansion of the nighttime light images of SDGSAT-1 satellite in illuminating ground object extraction by joint observation of NPP-VIIRS and sentinel-2A …

B Yu, F Chen, C Ye, Z Li, Y Dong, N Wang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …