2021
DOI: 10.3390/rs13245004
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Extending the DMSP Nighttime Lights Time Series beyond 2013

Abstract: Data collected by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) sensors have been archived and processed by the Earth Observation Group (EOG) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make global maps of nighttime images since 1994. Over the years, the EOG has developed automatic algorithms to make Stable Lights composites from the OLS visible band data by removing the transient lights from fires and fishing boats. The ephemeral lights are removed … Show more

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“…Ephemeral lights, such as from fires and flaring, are removed, and processing excludes (at the pixel level) images for nights affected by clouds, moonlight, sunlight, and other glare. The usual stable lights product time-series ended in 2013 [31], but that has now been extended with images from F15 for 2014-19 [46]. The time of night that lighting is observed differs between the extended time-series using F15 (ca.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ephemeral lights, such as from fires and flaring, are removed, and processing excludes (at the pixel level) images for nights affected by clouds, moonlight, sunlight, and other glare. The usual stable lights product time-series ended in 2013 [31], but that has now been extended with images from F15 for 2014-19 [46]. The time of night that lighting is observed differs between the extended time-series using F15 (ca.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another source of variability across years is that the orbit of the DMSP satellites slowly degrades over time, recording lights at a slightly earlier time each day. This feature has recently been used to extend the DMSP data from 2012 to 2019 using pre-dawn data from older satellites that crossed back into a dawn-dusk orbit [44]. We do not use the extended series as the orbital shift to pre-dawn hours introduces an additional source of measurement error.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A similar shift to pre-dawn OLS data collection occurred for satellite F-16. With support from the AFD (Agence Française de Dévelopement), EOG produced an DMSP nighttime lights extension series with pre-dawn nighttime data using the v.4 methods (Ghosh et al, 2021). In addition, VNL v.2 data were resampled to 30 arc second grids and transformed to match the spatial resolution and digital number range of DMSP (Nechaev et al, 2021).…”
Section: Dmsp Extension Seriesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…VNL v.3 DNB temporal profiles grids have been assembled for seventy cities across the North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa (Figure 14). Several studies based on VNL v.3 temporal profiles have already been published (Ghosh et al, 2021;Nechaev et al, 2021). Spatially extended DNB temporal profile grids have been assembled for VNL v.2 lit grid cells for Kenya, Ghana, and Texas.…”
Section: Viirs Nighttime Lights V3 Series-nightly Temporal Profilesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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