[HTML][HTML] Nighttime light remote sensing for urban applications: Progress, challenges, and prospects

Q Zheng, KC Seto, Y Zhou, S You, Q Weng - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Application of DMSP/OLS nighttime light images: A meta-analysis and a systematic literature review

Q Huang, X Yang, B Gao, Y Yang, Y Zhao - Remote Sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
Since the release of the digital archives of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
Operational Line Scanner (DMSP/OLS) nighttime light data in 1992, a variety of datasets …

[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 …

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 …

Revealing spatio-temporal evolution of urban visual environments with street view imagery

X Liang, T Zhao, F Biljecki - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
The visual landscape plays a pivotal role in urban planning and healthy cities. Recent
studies of visual evaluation focus on either objective or subjective approach, while …

A global record of annual urban dynamics (1992–2013) from nighttime lights

Y Zhou, X Li, GR Asrar, SJ Smith, M Imhoff - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The nighttime light (NTL) observations from Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program/Operational Linescane System (DMSP/OLS) offer great potentials to study urban …

Using multi-source geospatial big data to identify the structure of polycentric cities

J Cai, B Huang, Y Song - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Identifying the structure of a polycentric city is vital to various studies, such as urban sprawl
and population movement dynamics. This paper presents an efficient and reliable method …

Intercalibration between DMSP/OLS and VIIRS night-time light images to evaluate city light dynamics of Syria's major human settlement during Syrian Civil War

X Li, D Li, H Xu, C Wu - Remote Sensing of Night-Time Light, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Monthly composites of night-time light acquired from the Meteorological Satellite Program's
Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) had been used to evaluate socio-economic …

Extracting and understanding urban areas of interest using geotagged photos

Y Hu, S Gao, K Janowicz, B Yu, W Li… - … , Environment and Urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
Urban areas of interest (AOI) refer to the regions within an urban environment that attract
people's attention. Such areas often have high exposure to the general public, and receive a …

The potential of nighttime light remote sensing data to evaluate the development of digital economy: A case study of China at the city level

Z Chen, Y Wei, K Shi, Z Zhao, C Wang, B Wu… - … Environment and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
As one of the new and crucial fields of economic development, the digital economy refers to
the economic activities associated with digital technologies and information. The traditional …