VIIRS night-time lights
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences · +1 more institution
Abstract
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) collects global low-light imaging data that have significant improvements over comparable data collected for 40 years by the DMSP Operational Linescan System. One of the prominent features of DNB data is the detection of electric lighting present on the Earth’s surface. Most of these lights are from human settlements. VIIRS collects source data that could be used to generate monthly and annual science grade global radiance maps of human settlements with electric lighting. There are a substantial number of steps involved in producing a product that has been cleaned to exclude background noise, solar and lunar contamination, data degraded…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 35.57
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 23
Authors
5- CDChristopher D. ElvidgeCorresponding
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
- KBKimberly Baugh
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
- MZMikhail Zhizhin
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
- FHFeng-Chi Hsu
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
- TGTilottama Ghosh
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Topics & keywords
- Environmental science
- Remote sensing
- Meteorology
- Computer science
- Geography
- Sustainable cities and communities