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 …

A survey of visual transformers

Y Liu, Y Zhang, Y Wang, F Hou, J Yuan… - … on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

High-speed rail and CO2 emissions in urban China: A spatial difference-in-differences approach

R Jia, S Shao, L Yang - Energy Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
As the most important emerging transportation technology, high-speed rail (HSR) can
reshape regional economic development patterns and exert an important effect on the …

New energy demonstration city, spatial spillover and carbon emission efficiency: Evidence from China's quasi-natural experiment

J Chai, L Tian, R Jia - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The new energy demonstration city (NEDC) are conducive to develo** and applying
renewable energy, reducing carbon emissions effectively, and resha** the urban …

[HTML][HTML] An improved approach for monitoring urban built-up areas by combining NPP-VIIRS nighttime light, NDVI, NDWI, and NDBI

Y Zheng, L Tang, H Wang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

How urban agglomeration improve the emission efficiency? A spatial econometric analysis of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration in China

X Yu, Z Wu, H Zheng, M Li, T Tan - Journal of environmental management, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban areas consume more than 66% of the world's energy and generate more than 70% of
global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. With the world's population expected to reach 10 …

The impact of land urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions in the Yangtze River Delta, China: A multiscale perspective

J Li, X Huang, X Chuai, H Yang - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban areas have become one of the main sources of CO 2 emissions. Considering the
spatial interactions between county scale and prefectural scale divisions and spatial …

Develo** improved time-series DMSP-OLS-like data (1992–2019) in China by integrating DMSP-OLS and SNPP-VIIRS

Y Wu, K Shi, Z Chen, S Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) and
Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (SNPP …

The impact of multiple dimensions of urbanization on CO2 emissions: a spatial and threshold analysis of panel data on China's prefecture-level cities

F Yao, H Zhu, M Wang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
The extant literature has debated the impact of urbanization on CO 2 emissions with a focus
on population urbanization but has paid little attention to the other dimensions of …

Economic agglomeration and emissions reduction: Does high agglomeration in China's urban clusters lead to higher carbon intensity?

Q Yu, M Li, Q Li, Y Wang, W Chen - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban clusters are areas that feature both high degrees of economic agglomeration and
relatively serious pollution challenges; however, there is no unified conclusion regarding …