NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 210, Issue , 2018, Pages 113-143

  Román, Miguel O ^a   Wang, Zhuosen ^a,b   Sun, Qingsong ^a,c   Kalb, Virginia ^a   Miller, Steven D ^d   Molthan, Andrew ^e,f   Schultz, Lori ^e,f   Bell, Jordan ^e,f   Stokes, Eleanor C ^g   Pandey, Bhartendu ^g   Seto, Karen C ^g   Hall, Dorothy ^b   Oda, Tomohiro ^a,h   Wolfe, Robert E ^a   Lin, Gary ^a,i   Golpayegani, Navid ^a   Devadiga, Sadashiva ^a,i   Davidson, Carol ^a,i   Sarkar, Sudipta ^a,i   Praderas, Cid ^a,i   Schmaltz, Jeffrey ^a,i   Boller, Ryan ^a   Stevens, Joshua ^a,i   Ramos González, Olga M ^j   Padilla, Elizabeth ^k   Alonso, José ^l   Detrés, Yasmín ^m   Armstrong, Roy ^m   Miranda, Ismael ⁿ   Conte, Yasmín ^o   Marrero, Nitza ^p   MacManus, Kytt ^q   Esch, Thomas ^r   Masuoka, Edward J ^a   more..

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^e NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^g Yale University   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

ⁱ SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^j INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^k Para La Naturaleza   (Puerto Rico)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO AT CAYEY   (Puerto Rico)

^m UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

ⁿ Puerto Rico's Working Group on Light Pollution   (Puerto Rico)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^p Environmental Quality Board   (Puerto Rico)

^q Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^r GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Albedo; Atmospheric correction; JPSS; Long term monitoring; Lunar BRDF; NASA black marble; Night lights; NTL; Suomi NPP; Urban dynamics; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; EARTH (PLANET); MARBLE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORBITS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STRAY LIGHT; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; JPSS; LONG TERM MONITORING; LUNAR BRDF; NASA BLACK MARBLE; NIGHT LIGHTS; NIGHT TIME LIGHTS; SUOMI-NPP; URBAN DYNAMICS; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

NASA;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MONITORING SYSTEM; NIGHTGLOW; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SUOMI NPP; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VIIRS;

EID: 85044047358     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.017     Document Type: Article

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