[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Taking stock of built environment stock studies: Progress and prospects

M Lanau, G Liu, U Kral, D Wiedenhofer… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Built environment stocks (buildings and infrastructures) play multiple roles in our socio-
economic metabolism: they serve as the backbone of modern societies and human well …

[HTML][HTML] An extended time-series (2000–2018) of global NPP-VIIRS-like nighttime light data from a cross-sensor calibration

Z Chen, B Yu, C Yang, Y Zhou, X Qian… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
The nighttime light (NTL) satellite data have been widely used to investigate urbanization
process. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring house vacancy dynamics in the pearl river delta region: a method based on NPP-viirs night-time light remote sensing images

X Liu, Z Li, X Fu, Z Yin, M Liu, L Yin, W Zheng - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Urban spatial interaction integrates cities into closely related urban network systems in
continuous urban regions. However, it also brings differentiation and has mutual negative …

Exploring thermal comfort of urban buildings based on local climate zones

J Ren, J Yang, Y Zhang, X Xiao, JC Xia, X Li… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite increasing attention to rising land surface temperatures (LSTs) and other climate
changes caused by urbanization, few studies have considered the characteristics of LST or …

High-resolution multi-temporal mapping of global urban land using Landsat images based on the Google Earth Engine Platform

X Liu, G Hu, Y Chen, X Li, X Xu, S Li, F Pei… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Timely and accurate delineation of global urban land is fundamental to the understanding of
global environmental changes. However, most of the contemporary global urban land maps …

Which night lights data should we use in economics, and where?

J Gibson, S Olivia, G Boe-Gibson, C Li - Journal of Development …, 2021 - Elsevier
Popular DMSP night lights data are flawed by blurring, top-coding, and lack of calibration.
Yet newer and better VIIRS data are rarely used in economics. We compare these two data …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of power on uneven development: evaluating built-up area changes in Chengdu based on NPP-VIIRS images (2015–2019)

L Liu, Z Li, X Fu, X Liu, Z Li, W Zheng - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the context of uneven development studies of China, urban built-up area changes are the
index of the impact of power, as the local government is the only party that is able to acquire …

Direct and spillover effects of new-type urbanization on CO2 emissions from central heating sector and EKC analyses: evidence from 144 cities in China

W Zhang, Y Xu, L Jiang, DG Streets, C Wang - … Conservation and Recycling, 2023 - Elsevier
The new-type urbanization which emphasizes urban infrastructure improvement, together
with neighboring cities, may influence CO 2 emissions of urban facilities and energy …

Developing 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 …