High-Resolution Imagery of Earth at Night: New Sources, Opportunities and Challenges

High-Resolution Imagery of Earth at Night: New Sources, Opportunities and Challenges

Images of the Earth at night are an exceptional source of human geographical data, because artificial light highlights human activity in a way that daytime scenes do not. The quality of such imagery dramatically improved in 2012 with two new spaceborne detectors. The higher resolution and precision...

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Main Authors: Christopher C. M. Kyba, Stefanie Garz, Helga Kuechly, Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel, Jaime Zamorano, Jürgen Fischer, Franz Hölker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-12-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
artificial light
energy
international space station
light pollution
night
remote sensing
visible band
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/1/1

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