Nighttime light (NTL) remote sensing data offer unique capabilities to characterize both the
extent and intensity of human activities and have been extensively used to understand …

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 …

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

Nighttime light (NTL) data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
(DMSP)/Operational Linescan System (OLS) and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer …

Urban boundaries, an essential property of cities, are widely used in many urban studies.
However, extracting urban boundaries from satellite images is still a great challenge …

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 …

Urban spatial interaction integrates cities into closely related urban network systems in
continuous urban regions. However, it also brings differentiation and has mutual negative …

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 …

Since the late 1990s, remotely sensed night-time lights (NTL) satellite imagery has been
shown to correlate with socioeconomic parameters including urbanization, economic …

The long-term urban dynamics at regional and global scales is essential to understanding
the urbanization processes and environmental consequences for providing better scientific …