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View article: An Improved Calibration for Satellite Estimation of Flared Gas Volumes from VIIRS Nighttime Data
An Improved Calibration for Satellite Estimation of Flared Gas Volumes from VIIRS Nighttime Data Open
The VIIRS Nightfire (VNF) data product is particularly useful for monitoring of global natural gas flaring and estimation of flared gas volumes. Advantages of VIIRS include the collection of nightly global coverage with the inclusion of fo…
View article: An Improved Calibration for Satellite Estimation of Flared Gas Volumes from Viirs Nighttime Data
An Improved Calibration for Satellite Estimation of Flared Gas Volumes from Viirs Nighttime Data Open
View article: High-resolution electric service interruptions map and CBG-level share of population interrupted in Texas during the February 2021 winter storm.
High-resolution electric service interruptions map and CBG-level share of population interrupted in Texas during the February 2021 winter storm. Open
The data package includes two files: a TIFF file and a CSV file. The TIFF file (raster) represents a binary power interruptions map of the Texas region during the February 2021 winter storm. This map has a spatial resolution of 15 arc-seco…
View article: Statistical moments of VIIRS night-time lights
Statistical moments of VIIRS night-time lights Open
Annual VIIRS global night-time lights traditionally report mean radiance levels after filtering to remove moonlit and cloudy data followed by outlier removal. The mean is the first statistical moment, but there are three other statistical …
View article: Fifty years of nightly global low-light imaging satellite observations
Fifty years of nightly global low-light imaging satellite observations Open
The history of satellite remote sensing of nighttime lights traces it is roots back the U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) which began flying polar orbiting satellites with cloud imaging sensors in the 1970’s. T…
View article: Cross-Sensor Nighttime Lights Image Calibration for DMSP/OLS and SNPP/VIIRS with Residual U-Net
Cross-Sensor Nighttime Lights Image Calibration for DMSP/OLS and SNPP/VIIRS with Residual U-Net Open
Remote sensing of nighttime lights (NTL) is widely used in socio-economic studies of economic growth, urbanization, stability of power grid, environmental light pollution, pandemics and military conflicts. Currently, NTL data are collected…
View article: Extending the DMSP Nighttime Lights Time Series beyond 2013
Extending the DMSP Nighttime Lights Time Series beyond 2013 Open
Data collected by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) sensors have been archived and processed by the Earth Observation Group (EOG) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (N…
View article: Measuring Gas Flaring in Russia with Multispectral VIIRS Nightfire
Measuring Gas Flaring in Russia with Multispectral VIIRS Nightfire Open
According to the data reported by the international and governmental agencies, the Russian Federation remains one of the world’s major associated petroleum gas (APG) flaring nations. In the past decade, numerous studies have shown the appl…
View article: The Dimming of Lights in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Dimming of Lights in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The monthly Suomi National Polar-orbiting (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day–Night Band (DNB) composite reveals the dimming of lights as an effect of the lockdown enforced by the government of India in response to …
View article: The Dimming of Lights in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Dimming of Lights in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
A satellite survey of the cumulative radiant emissions from electric lighting across China reveals a large radiance decline in lighting from December 2019 to February 2020—the peak of the lockdown established to suppress the spread of COVI…
View article: Extending Nighttime Combustion Source Detection Limits with Short Wavelength VIIRS Data
Extending Nighttime Combustion Source Detection Limits with Short Wavelength VIIRS Data Open
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) collects low light imaging data at night in five spectral bands. The best known of these is the day/night band (DNB) which uses light intensification for imaging of moonlit clouds in th…
View article: Rating the Effectiveness of Fishery Closures With Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Boat Detection Data
Rating the Effectiveness of Fishery Closures With Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Boat Detection Data Open
Fishery closures are widely used to promote the sustainability of fish stocks. Fishery agencies typically have very little data relevant to planning closure enforcement actions and evaluating the effectiveness of closures, due in part to t…
View article: The potential role of natural gas flaring in meeting greenhouse gas mitigation targets
The potential role of natural gas flaring in meeting greenhouse gas mitigation targets Open
In this paper, we compare 2015 satellite-derived natural gas (gas) flaring data with the greenhouse gas reduction targets presented by those countries in their nationally determined contributions (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Co…
View article: Methods for Global Survey of Natural Gas Flaring from Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Data
Methods for Global Survey of Natural Gas Flaring from Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Data Open
A set of methods are presented for the global survey of natural gas flaring using data collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NASA/NOAA Visible Infrared Imaging Radiom…
View article: Long-wave infrared identification of smoldering peat fires in Indonesia with nighttime Landsat data
Long-wave infrared identification of smoldering peat fires in Indonesia with nighttime Landsat data Open
Smoldering peat fires in Indonesia are responsible for large quantities of trace gas and particulate emissions. However, to date no satellite remote sensing technique has been demonstrated for the identification of smoldering peat fires. F…
View article: Automatic Boat Identification System for VIIRS Low Light Imaging Data
Automatic Boat Identification System for VIIRS Low Light Imaging Data Open
The ability for satellite sensors to detect lit fishing boats has been known since the 1970s. However, the use of the observations has been limited by the lack of an automatic algorithm for reporting the location and brightness of offshore…
View article: DMSP-OLS Radiance Calibrated Nighttime Lights Time Series with Intercalibration
DMSP-OLS Radiance Calibrated Nighttime Lights Time Series with Intercalibration Open
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) stable lights products are made using operational OLS data collected at high gain settings, resulting in sensor saturation on brightly lit areas, such as c…