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  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,464 Views
13 Pages

Mesospheric Bore Observations Using Suomi-NPP VIIRS DNB during 2013–2017

  • Yucheng Su,
  • Jia Yue,
  • Xiao Liu,
  • Steven D. Miller,
  • William C. Straka,
  • Steven M. Smith,
  • Dong Guo and
  • Shengli Guo

1 December 2018

This paper reports mesospheric bore events observed by Day/Night Band (DNB) of the Visible/Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NOAA/NASA) Suom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,446 Views
18 Pages

17 April 2019

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) is capable of observing reflected lunar radiances at night with its high gain stage (HGS), and the radiometric calibration is traceable to the sun through gain transfer from t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,630 Views
37 Pages

The Suomi National Polar-orbiting (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day-Night Band (DNB) measures visible and near-infrared light extending over seven orders of magnitude of dynamic range. This makes radiometric calibration diff...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,849 Views
30 Pages

A Scientometric Visualization Analysis for Night-Time Light Remote Sensing Research from 1991 to 2016

  • Kai Hu,
  • Kunlun Qi,
  • Qingfeng Guan,
  • Chuanqing Wu,
  • Jingmin Yu,
  • Yaxian Qing,
  • Jie Zheng,
  • Huayi Wu and
  • Xi Li

4 August 2017

In this paper, we conducted a scientometric analysis based on the Night-Time Light (NTL) remote sensing related literature datasets retrieved from Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index in Web of Science core collection dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
14,347 Views
19 Pages

17 March 2017

Natural and anthropogenic hazards are frequently responsible for disaster events, leading to damaged physical infrastructure, which can result in loss of electrical power for affected locations. Remotely-sensed, nighttime satellite imagery from the S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,634 Views
35 Pages

Mission-Long Recalibrated Science Quality Suomi NPP VIIRS Radiometric Dataset Using Advanced Algorithms for Time Series Studies

  • Changyong Cao,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Xi Shao,
  • Wenhui Wang,
  • Sirish Uprety,
  • Taeyoung Choi,
  • Slawomir Blonski,
  • Yalong Gu,
  • Yan Bai and
  • Satya Kalluri
  • + 1 author

12 March 2021

Suomi NPP has been successfully operating since its launch on 28 October 2011. As one of the major payloads, along with microwave and infrared sounders (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS)), and ozone map...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,488 Views
19 Pages

Improved NOAA-20 Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day/Night Band Image Quality by Upgraded Gain Calibration

  • Yalong Gu,
  • Slawomir Blonski,
  • Wenhui Wang,
  • Sirish Uprety,
  • Taeyoung Choi,
  • Xi Shao,
  • Bin Zhang and
  • Changyong Cao

26 June 2021

Due to complex radiometric calibration, the imagery collected by the Day/Night Band (DNB) of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar Partnership (Suomi-NPP) and the NOAA-20 follow-on satellite is subject...

  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Citations
16,336 Views
21 Pages

1 December 2014

The high sensitivity and advanced onboard calibration on the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) enables accurate measurements of low light radiances which leads to enhanced quantitative applications at night. The f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,144 Views
16 Pages

7 June 2023

We provide quantitative results from GIS-based modelling of urban emission functions for a range of representative low- and mid-rise locations, ranging from individual streets to residential communities within cities, as well as entire towns and city...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
991 Views
17 Pages

Pre-Launch Day-Night Band Radiometric Performance of JPSS-3 and -4 VIIRS

  • Daniel Link,
  • Thomas Schwarting,
  • Amit Angal and
  • Xiaoxiong Xiong

21 March 2025

Following the success of Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments currently operating onboard the Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20, and NOAA-21 spacecraft, preparations are underway for the final two VIIRS instruments for the Joint Polar Satel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,533 Views
11 Pages

Satellite-derived nighttime light images are increasingly used for various studies in relation to demographic, socioeconomic and urbanization dynamics because of the salient relationships between anthropogenic lighting signals at night and statistica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
10,512 Views
24 Pages

25 December 2015

Nighttime light imagery offers a unique view of the Earth’s surface. In the past, the nighttime light data collected by the DMSP-OLS sensors have been used as an efficient means to correlate regional and global socio-economic activities. With the lau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,589 Views
12 Pages

13 March 2021

Similar to the Reflective Solar Band (RSB) calibration, Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on-board calibration of Day Night Band (DNB) is based on the Solar Diffuser (SD) observations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,743 Views
14 Pages

15 March 2018

As an informative proxy measure for a range of urbanization and socioeconomic variables, satellite-derived nighttime light data have been widely used to investigate diverse anthropogenic activities in human settlements over time and space from the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
9,030 Views
20 Pages

The S-NPP VIIRS Day-Night Band On-Orbit Calibration/Characterization and Current State of SDR Products

  • Shihyan Lee,
  • Kwofu Chiang,
  • Xiaoxiong Xiong,
  • Chengbo Sun and
  • Samuel Anderson

10 December 2014

The launch of VIIRS on-board the Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) on 28 October 2011, marked the beginning of the next chapter on nighttime lights observation started by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s (DMSP) OLS sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,432 Views
27 Pages

JPSS-1 VIIRS Prelaunch Reflective Solar Band Testing and Performance

  • David Moyer,
  • Amit Angal,
  • Hassan Oudrari,
  • Evan Haas,
  • Qiang Ji,
  • Frank De Luccia and
  • Xiaoxiong Xiong

13 October 2022

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments on board both the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) and the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft provides calibrated reflectance, radiance, and bright...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,984 Views
21 Pages

The Terra Vega Active Light Source: A First Step in a New Approach to Perform Nighttime Absolute Radiometric Calibrations and Early Results Calibrating the VIIRS DNB

  • Robert E. Ryan,
  • Mary Pagnutti,
  • Kara Burch,
  • Larry Leigh,
  • Timothy Ruggles,
  • Changyong Cao,
  • David Aaron,
  • Slawomir Blonski and
  • Dennis Helder

24 March 2019

A fully automated, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-traceable artificial light source called Terra Vega has been developed to radiometrically calibrate the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer (VIIRS) Day Night Band (DNB) working...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,158 Views
12 Pages

Assessment of the NOAA S-NPP VIIRS Geolocation Reprocessing Improvements

  • Wenhui Wang,
  • Changyong Cao,
  • Yan Bai,
  • Slawomir Blonski and
  • Mitchell A. Schull

21 September 2017

Long-term time series analysis requires consistent data records from satellites. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar orbiting Partner (S-NPP) satellite launched in 2011 requires a major effort to pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,716 Views
17 Pages

The Dimming of Lights in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Tilottama Ghosh,
  • Christopher D. Elvidge,
  • Feng-Chi Hsu,
  • Mikhail Zhizhin and
  • Morgan Bazilian

10 October 2020

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 the C...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,097 Views
15 Pages

29 June 2022

There is a great need to study the decadal long-term time series of urban night-light changes since the launch of Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, to future JPSS-2, 3, and 4 in the next decades. The recently recalibrated and reprocessed Suomi NPP VIIRS/DNB datase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,204 Views
17 Pages

Preliminary Dual-Satellite Observations of Atmospheric Gravity Waves in Airglow

  • Jia Yue,
  • Septi Perwitasari,
  • Shuang Xu,
  • Yuta Hozumi,
  • Takuji Nakamura,
  • Takeshi Sakanoi,
  • Akinori Saito,
  • Steven D. Miller,
  • William Straka and
  • Pingping Rong

28 October 2019

Atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) are among the important energy and momentum transfer mechanisms from the troposphere to the middle and upper atmosphere. Despite their understood importance in governing the structure and dynamics of these regions, me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,316 Views
21 Pages

JPSS-1 VIIRS Pre-Launch Response Versus Scan Angle Testing and Performance

  • David Moyer,
  • Jeff McIntire,
  • Hassan Oudrari,
  • James McCarthy,
  • Xiaoxiong Xiong and
  • Frank De Luccia

12 February 2016

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments on-board both the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) and the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft, with launch dates of October 2011 and December 2016...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,522 Views
14 Pages

19 October 2016

In order to monitor nighttime particular matter (PM) air quality in urban area, a back propagation neural network (BP neural network) inversion model is established, using low-light radiation data from the day/night band (DNB) of the Visible Infrared...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,981 Views
25 Pages

Mapping Regional Urban Extent Using NPP-VIIRS DNB and MODIS NDVI Data

  • Run Wang,
  • Bo Wan,
  • Qinghua Guo,
  • Maosheng Hu and
  • Shunping Zhou

21 August 2017

The accurate and timely monitoring of regional urban extent is helpful for analyzing urban sprawl and studying environmental issues related to urbanization. This paper proposes a classification scheme for large-scale urban extent mapping by combining...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,934 Views
21 Pages

Estimating Rural Electric Power Consumption Using NPP-VIIRS Night-Time Light, Toponym and POI Data in Ethnic Minority Areas of China

  • Fei Zhao,
  • Jieyu Ding,
  • Sujin Zhang,
  • Guize Luan,
  • Lu Song,
  • Zhiyan Peng,
  • Qingyun Du and
  • Zhiqiang Xie

1 September 2020

Aiming at the problem that the estimation of electric power consumption (EPC) by using night-time light (NTL) data is mostly concentrated in large areas, a method for estimating EPC in rural areas is proposed. Rural electric power consumption (REPC)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,929 Views
25 Pages

JPSS-2 VIIRS Pre-Launch Reflective Solar Band Testing and Performance

  • David Moyer,
  • Amit Angal,
  • Qiang Ji,
  • Jeff McIntire and
  • Xiaoxiong Xiong

15 December 2022

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments on-board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) and Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) spacecrafts 1 and 2 provides calibrated sensor data record (SDR) reflectance, rad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,844 Views
24 Pages

Estimating Nighttime PM2.5 Concentration in Beijing Based on NPP/VIIRS Day/Night Band

  • Jianqiong Deng,
  • Shi Qiu,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Haodong Cui,
  • Kun Li,
  • Hongjia Cheng,
  • Zhaoyan Liu,
  • Xianhui Dou and
  • Yonggang Qian

6 January 2023

Nighttime PM2.5 detection by remote sensing can expand understanding of PM2.5 spatiotemporal patterns due to wider coverage compared to ground monitors and by supplementing traditional daytime detection. However, using remote sensing data to invert P...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
393 Views
25 Pages

21 November 2025

Anthropogenic night light (ANL) provides a unique observable for the spatially explicit mapping of human-modified landscapes in the form of lighted infrastructure. Since 2013, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day Night Band (DNB)...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,282 Views
12 Pages

Due to remarkable socioeconomic development, an increasing number of karst rocky desertification areas have been severely affected by human activities in southern China. Effectively analyzing human activities in karst rocky desertification areas is a...