This page contains a list of papers regarding satellite based
nighttime light detection and its applications. Please email me if you
know of another paper that should be included here.
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here
for a long list of publications based on data from the NOAA's nighttime
lights analysis based on DMSP/OLS data.
Aerial and Space-Based Light Pollution Observations:
Measurement and Applications
Hsu F, Elvidge CD, Matsuno Y (2013)
Exploring and estimating in-use steel stocks in civil engineering and buildings from night-time lights
Exploring and estimating in-use steel stocks in civil engineering and buildings from night-time lights. International Journal of Remote Sensing 34: 490-504.
Johnson RS, Zhang J, Hyer EJ, Miller SD, Reid JS (2013)
Preliminary investigations toward
nighttime aerosol optical depth retrievals
from the VIIRS day/night band. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 6: 587-612
Li X, Chen X, Zhao Y, Xu J, Chen F, Li H (2013)
Automatic intercalibration of night-time light imagery using robust regression. Remote Sensing Letters 4
Butt (2012)
Estimation of Light Pollution Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Techniques. GIScience & Remote Sensing 49.
Chen B, Shi G, Wang B, Zhao J, Tan S (2012)
Estimation of the anthropogenic heat release distribution in China from 1992 to 2009. ACTA Meteorologica Sinica 26:507-515
Elvidge CD, Baugh KE, Anderson SJ, Sutton PC, Ghosh T (2012)
The Lumen Gini Coefficient: a satellite imagery derived human development index. Soc Geogr Discuss 8:27-59
Kuechly HU,
Kyba CCM, Ruhtz T, Lindemann C, Wolter C, Fischer J, Hölker F (2012) "
Aerial survey and spatial analysis of sources of light pollution in Berlin, Germany." Remote Sensing of Environment, 126:39-50 (2012).
download unproofed preprint
Levin N, Duke Y (2012)
High spatial resolution night-time light images for demographic and socio-economic studies. Remote Sensing of Environment 119: 1-10
Letu H, Hara M, Tana G, Nishio F (2012)
A Saturated Light Correction Method for DMSP/OLS Nighttime Satellite Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 50:389-396
Ma T, Zhou C, Pei T, Haynie S, Fan J (2012)
Quantitative estimation of urbanization dynamics using time series of DMSP/OLS nighttime light data: A comparative case study from China's cities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 124: 99-107
Miller SD, Mills SP, Elvidge CD, Tindsey DT, Lee TF, Hawkins JD (2012)
Suomi satellite brings to light a unique frontier of nighttime environmental sensing capabilities. PNAS, in press
Propastin P, Kappas M (2012)
Assessing Satellite-Observed Nighttime Lights for Monitoring Socioeconomic Parameters in the Republic of Kazakhstan. GIScience & Remote Sensing 49: 538-557
Small C, Elvidge CD (2012)
Night on Earth: Mapping decadal changes of anthropogenic night light in Asia. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, in press
Yao Y (2012)
Correlation of Human Activities with Population and GDP in Chinese Cities -Based on the Data of DMSP-OLS. International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering
Zhao N, Ghosh T, Samson EL (2012)
Mapping spatio-temporal changes of Chinese electric power consumption using night-time imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33
Zhao N, Samson EL (2012)
Estimation of virtual water contained in international trade products using nighttime imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 18:243-250
Baugh K, Elivdge C, Ghosh T, Ziskin D (2011)
Development of a
2009 Stable Lights Product using DMSPOLS data. Proceedings of the
Asia Pacific Advanced Network
Chen X, NordHaus WD (2011)
Using luminosity data as a proxy for economic statistics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Chowdhury PKR, Maithani S, Dadhwal VK (2011)
Estimation of
urban population in Indo-Gangetic Plains using night-time OLS
data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, in press
Doll CNH (2011)
Population
detection profiles of DMSP-OLS night-time imagery by regions of the
world. Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Advanced Network, February
21-25, 2011, Hong Kong, China
Lolkema DT, et al (2011)
Position Paper from the User Community Earth Observation of Nighttime Lighting. Unpublished position paper
Rodrigues P, Aubrecht C, Gil A, Longcore T, Elvidge C (2011)
Remote sensing to map influence of light pollution on Cory's shearwater in São Miguel Island, Azores Archipelago. Eur J Wildl Res (In press)
Roychowdhury K, Jones S, Arrowsmith C, Reinke K (2011)
Indian census using satellite images: Can DMSP-OLS data be used for small administrative regions? Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event 2011, April 13-11, Munich, Germany
Roychowdhury K, Taubenbock H, Jones S (2011)
Delineating urban, suburban, rural areas using Landsat and DMSP-OLS night-time images. Proceedings of the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event 2011, April 13-11, Munich, Germany
Small C, Elvidge CD (2011)
Mapping Decadal Change in Anthropogenic Night Light. Procedia Environmental Sciences 7: 353-358 (proceedings of "Spatial Statistics 2011: Mapping Global Change".
Yang M, Wang S, Zhou Y, Wang L (2011)
Review on Applications of DMSP/OLS Night-time Emissions Data. Remote Sensing Technology and Application 26(1): 45-51
Zamorano Calvo J, Sánchez de Miguel A, Pascual Ramírez S Gómez Castaño J, Ramírez Moreta P, Challupner P (2011)
ISS nocturnal images as a scientific tool against Light Pollution. Unpublished working paper submitted to NASA JSC Imaging Lab
Zeng C, Zhou Y, Wang S, Yan F, Zhao Q (2011)
Population spatialization in China based on night-time imagery and land use data. International Journal of Remote Sensing (in press)
Elvidge CD, Keith DM, Tuttle BT, Baugh KE (2010)
Spectral identification of lighting
type and character. Sensors 10: 3961-3988
Paulino C, Escudero L (2010)
Use of Night Satellite
Imagery to Monitor the Squid Fishery in Peru. Case study 10 of
Handbook of Satellite Remote Sensing Image Interpretation:
Applications for Marine Living Resources Conservation and
Management
Ziskin D, Baugh K, Hsu FC, Ghosh T, Elvidge C (2010)
Methods Used For the 2006 Radiance Lights Proceedings of the 30th Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meeting, August 9-13, Hanoi, Vietnam [
DMSP Radiance data for 2006 is available here]
Elvidge CD, Ziskin D, Baugh KE, Tuttle BT, Ghosh T, Pack DW, Erwin EH, Zhizhin M (2009)
A Fifteen Year Record of Global Natural Gas Flaring Derived from Satellite Data. Energies 2:595-622.
Elvidge CD, Cinzano P, Pettitd DR, Arvesene J, Sutton P, Small C, Nemanih R, Longcore T, Rich C, Safrank J, Weeks J, Ebener S (2007)
The Nightsat mission concept. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28:12 2645 - 2670
Sutton P (2003)
A scale-adjusted measure of 'Urban sprawl' using nighttime satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 86:3 353-369
Cinzano P, Falchi F, Elvidge CD (2001)
The first World Atlas of the artificial night sky
brightness. Mon Not R Astron Soc 328: 689-707.
Imhoff ML, Lawrence WT, Elvidge CD, Levine E, Privalsky MV, Brown V (1997)
Using nighttime DMSP/OLS images of city lights to estimate the impact of urban land use on soil resources in the United States. Remote Sensing of Environment, 59(1): 105-117
Elvidge, CD, Baugh KE, Kihn EA, Kroehl HW, Davis, ER (1996)
Mapping
city lights with night-time data from the DMSP operational linescan system.
Photogram Eng Remote Sens 63: 727-734.