Remote Sensing Technologies, Applications and Perspectives at Night: Nightlight, Nighttime Thermal Infrared and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Dear Colleagues,

Daytime measurements of reflected sunlight in the visible spectrum have long been a standard for Earth-observing radiometers. However, at night, these optical sensors are limited in their ability to capture detailed information on many critical weather and climate parameters. This limitation hampers our ability to fully characterize the diurnal behavior and processes essential for the improved monitoring, understanding, and modeling of weather and climate systems.

This Special Issue aims to provide a series of case studies demonstrating the use of a wide spectrum of remote sensing for science at night: technologies, applications, and perspectives. This issue aims to find the advances of remote sensing technologies in night-time environmental monitoring for a range of practical and research applications, Earth observation datasets, and challenges.

Dr. Di Liu
Dr. Jiajun Li
Dr. Weiying Lin
Dr. Chengbin Deng
Guest Editors

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