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 …

Environmental risks from artificial nighttime lighting widespread and increasing across Europe

A Sánchez de Miguel, J Bennie, E Rosenfeld… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The nighttime environment of much of Earth is being changed rapidly by the introduction of
artificial lighting. While data on spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of artificial …

The spatial integration and coordinated industrial development of urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

Y Liu, X Zhang, X Pan, X Ma, M Tang - Cities, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban agglomeration is the engine of national development and regional prosperity.
Although extensive work has investigated issues related to this new form of spatial …

Predicting socioeconomic indicators using transfer learning on imagery data: an application in Brazil

DA Castro, MA Álvarez - GeoJournal, 2023 - Springer
Censuses and other surveys responsible for gathering socioeconomic data are expensive
and time consuming. For this reason, in poor and develo** countries there often is a long …

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 …

Shift in the temporal trend of boundary layer height in China using long‐term (1979–2016) radiosonde data

J Guo, Y Li, JB Cohen, J Li, D Chen… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The knowledge regarding how the boundary layer height (BLH) changes over time is still
poor. Here we analyze the spatial and temporal changes in radiosonde‐derived …

The relationship between urban form and heat island intensity along the urban development gradients

Z Liang, S Wu, Y Wang, F Wei, J Huang, J Shen… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
There is an increasing demand for urban form optimization to mitigate urban heat island
(UHI) effect under the background of global climate change and urbanization. However …

Local and telecoupling coordination degree model of urbanization and the eco-environment based on RS and GIS: A case study in the Wuhan urban agglomeration

P Tang, J Huang, H Zhou, C Fang, Y Zhan… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the development of globalization, telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental
interactions between distant places) is proposed as a relatively new concept. On this basis …

Characterizing urban infrastructural transitions for the Sustainable Development Goals using multi-temporal land, population, and nighttime light data

EC Stokes, KC Seto - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Though urbanization is often linked to development gains, some regions in Asia, Latin
America, and Sub-Saharan Africa have grown in urban population, while remaining bereft of …

Nighttime lights and county-level economic activity in the United States: 2001 to 2019

J Gibson, G Boe-Gibson - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nighttime lights (NTL) are a popular type of data for evaluating economic performance of
regions and economic impacts of various shocks and interventions. Several validation …