Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

Christopher D. Elvidge pioneered the development of global satellite derived night-time lights and led the production of a twenty-one year time series of global DMSP night-time lights (1992–2013). Elvidge was instrumental in establishing the DMSP digital archive at NOAA and led the media migration that rescued the digital records from aging tapes. He developed the VIIRS nightfire (VNF) product, methods for discriminating flaming and smoldering combustion using night-time Landsat data, and developed a night-time boat detection product for VIIRS. Xi Li is Associate Professor at State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University. He earned a Ph.D. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at Wuhan University in 2009. His research interests include physical modeling of night-time light as well as night-time light remote sensing applications. He serves as an editorial board member of the International Journal of Remote Sensing and an international consultant for Asian Development Bank. Yuyu Zhou is Associate Professor at the Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University. His research focus has always been in quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of environmental change and developing modeling mechanisms to bridge the driving forces and consequences of environmental change so that the impacts of human activities on the environment can be effectively measured, modeled and evaluated. Changyong Cao is the Chief for the satellite calibration and data assimilation branch at the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). He oversees the calibration and validation of satellite radiometers on NOAA polar- orbiting and geostationary satellites. He is also the science team lead for the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument with a research interest on VIIRS on- orbit performance for a variety of applications including night- time lights. Timothy A. Warner is Emeritus Professor of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University. He served as editor in chief of the International Journal of Remote Sensing from 2014 to 2020. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Preface: Remote sensing of night-time light

Xi Li, Christopher Elvidge, Yuyu Zhou, Changyong Cao and Timothy A. Warner

1. VIIRS nighttime lights

Christopher D Elvidge, Kimberly Baugh, Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng Chi Hsu and Tilottama Ghosh

2. Assessment of straylight correction performance for the VIIRS day/night band using Dome-C and Greenland under lunar illumination

Shi Qiu, Xi Shao, Chang Yong Cao, Sirish Uprety and Wen Hui Wang

3. Improving accuracy of economic estimations with VIIRS DNB image products

Naizhuo Zhao, Feng-Chi Hsu, Guofeng Cao and Eric L. Samson

4. A new multichannel threshold algorithm based on radiative transfer characteristics for detecting fog/ low stratus using night-time NPP/VIIRS data.

Shensen Hu, Shuo Ma, Wei Yan, Jun Jiang and Yunxian Huang

5. 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

Xi Li, Deren Li, Huimin Xu and Chuanqing Wu

6. Outdoor light and breast cancer incidence: a comparative analysis of DMSP and VIIRS-DNB satellite data

Nataliya A. Rybnikova and Boris A. Portnov

7. Using multitemporal night-time lights data to compare regional development in Russia and China, 1992–2012

Mia M. Bennett and Laurence C. Smith

8. The short-term economic impact of tropical Cyclone Pam: an analysis using VIIRS nightlight satellite imagery

Preeya Mohan and Eric Strobl

9. Port economics comprehensive scores for major cities in the Yangtze Valley, China using the DMSPOLS night-time light imagery

Chang Li, Guangping Chen, Jing Luo, Shice Li and Jia Ye

10. Urban mapping using DMSP/OLS stable night-time light: a review

Xuecao Li and Yuyu Zhou

11. Analysis of urbanization dynamics in mainland China using pixel-based night-time light trajectories from 1992 to 2013

Yang Ju, Iryna Dronova, Qin Ma and Xiang Zhang

12. Assessing urban growth dynamics of major Southeast Asian cities using Night-Time Light data

Shankar Acharya Kamarajugedda, Pradeep V Mandapaka and Edmond Y.M Lo

13. A Novel Method for Urban Area Extraction from VIIRS DNB and MODIS NDVI Data: A Case Study of Chinese Cities

Qiao Zhang, Ping Wang, Hui Chen, Qinglun Huang, Hongbing Jiang, Zijian Zhang, Yanmei Zhang, Xiang Luo and Shujuan Sun

14. Monitoring urban expansion using time series of night-time light data: a case study in Wuhan, China

Xin Xin, Bin Liu, Kaichang Di, Zhe Zhu, Zhongyuan Zhao, Jia Liu, Zongyu Yue and Guo Zhang

15. Predicting potential fishing zones of Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus) using remotely sensed images in coastal waters of south-western Hokkaido, Japan

Xun Zhang, Sei-Ichi Saitoh and Toru Hirawake