Studying the spatiotemporal dynamics of crime is crucial for accurate crime geography research. While studies have examined crime patterns related to weekdays, seasons, and specific events, there is a noticeable gap in research on nighttime crimes. T...
Urban nighttime leisure spaces (UNLSs), important urban sites of nighttime economic activity, have created enormous economic and social benefits. Both the physical features (e.g., location, shape, and area) and the social functions (e.g., commercial...
Heat waves (HWs) with high humidity are dangerous to human health. However, existing studies on different types of HWs considering the effect of humidity are still limited. This study defines three types of wet summer HWs (that is, wet independent da...
Along with rapid urbanization, nighttime activities from places, such as restaurants, pubs and bars, and theatres, have created enormous economic and social benefits. The nighttime economy (NTE), as a newly developed social phenomenon, has been used...
Economic inequality at the local level has been shown to be an important predictor of people’s political perceptions and preferences. However, research on these questions is hampered by the fact that local inequality is difficult to measure and syste...
In the field of computer vision, the detection of road potholes at night represents a critical challenge in enhancing the safety of intelligent transportation systems. Ensuring road safety is of paramount importance, particularly in promptly repairin...
Data collected by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) sensors have been archived and processed by the Earth Observation Group (EOG) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
Quantifying spatial variations and trends in nighttime fires is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of fire dynamics. Traditional fire monitoring typically focuses on daytime observations, but controlling nocturnal fires poses unique challenges...
Figuring out the effect of the built-up environment on artificial light at night is essential for better understanding nighttime luminosity in both socioeconomic and ecological perspectives. However, there are few studies linking artificial surface p...
In this study, the requirements for image dehazing methods have been put forward, such as a wider range of scenarios in which the methods can be used, faster processing speeds and higher image quality. Recent dehazing methods can only unilaterally pr...
The Yemen conflict has caused a severe humanitarian crisis. This study aims to evaluate the Yemen crisis by making use of time series nighttime light images from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite...
Nighttime eating, particularly before bed, has received considerable attention. Limiting and/or avoiding food before nighttime sleep has been proposed as both a weight loss strategy and approach to improve health and body composition. Indeed, negativ...
With Chinese people’s increasing willingness to participate in night activities, local governments have begun regarding the nighttime economy as an important means to stimulate urban vitality and increase social employment. This study uses chan...
For the first time, nighttime VIS/NIR—SWIR (visible and near-infrared—shortwave infrared) spectra from a satellite mission have been analyzed using the EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) high-resolution imaging spectromete...
Ground-level ozone (O3) is mainly produced during daytime in the presence of ultraviolet (UV) light and later destroyed by nitrogen oxides during nighttime. However, light pollution caused by the excessive use of artificial lights may disrupt the che...
Images routinely suffer from quality degradation in fog, mist, and other harsh weather conditions. Consequently, image dehazing is an essential and inevitable pre-processing step in computer vision tasks. Image quality enhancement for special scenes,...
Urban nighttime lighting extends human activity hours and enhances safety but also wastes energy and causes light pollution. Influenced by building obstructions and surface reflections, light emissions exhibit significant anisotropy. Remote sensing c...
Nighttime economic development is an important driving force in urban economic development, and identification of the levels and boundary ranges of nighttime economic agglomerations is an important part of the management of the nighttime economy. Pre...
Nighttime object detection poses significant challenges due to low illumination, noise, and reduced contrast, which can severely impact the performance of standard detection models. In this paper, we present NF-DETR (Night-Frequency Detection Transfo...
Nighttime light observations from remote sensing provide us with a timely and spatially explicit measure of human activities, and therefore enable a host of applications such as tracking urbanization and socioeconomic dynamics, evaluating armed confl...
The long-term monitoring of nighttime lights is essential for understanding sources of light pollution. Nighttime lights observed in space are affected by atmospheric conditions as they transmit from the Earth surface through clouds and aerosols to t...
Nighttime Thermal InfraRed (NTIR) image colorization, also known as the translation of NTIR images into Daytime Color Visible (DCV) images, can facilitate human and intelligent system perception of nighttime scenes under weak lighting conditions. End...
The long-path differential optical absorption spectroscopy (LP-DOAS) technique was deployed in Shanghai to continuously monitor ozone (O3), formaldehyde (HCHO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitrous acid (HONO), and nitrate radical (NO3) mixing ratios from...
Zimbabwe’s economy declined between 2000 and 2009. This study detects the economic decline in different regions of Zimbabwe using nighttime light imagery from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS). We f...
Object detection and tracking has always been one of the important research directions in computer vision. The purpose is to determine whether the object is contained in the input image and enclose the object with a bounding box. However, most object...
The satellite imagery of nighttime lights (NTLs) has been studied to understand human activities, economic development, and more recently, the ecological impact of brighter night skies. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day–...
Nighttime light remote sensing imagery is limited by its single band and low spatial resolution, hindering its ability to accurately capture ground information. To address this, a dual-sampling adjustment method is proposed to enhance nighttime light...
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China’s “plain–mountain transition zone” (hereinafter referred to as the “transition zone”) has experienced rapid and diverse urbanization processes. Assessing the dynamic characteristics of urbanization is particu...
Observing and understanding changes in Africa is a hotspot in global ecological environmental research since the early 1970s. As possible causes of environmental degradation, frequent droughts and human activities attracted wide attention. Remote sen...
With the rapid development of the global economy, the over-expansion of outdoor artificial light at night (ALAN) in cities has led to increasingly severe light pollution worldwide. More and more studies have paid attention to the problem of light pol...
Nighttime fear is common among children and may negatively affect their growth. Given the positive role of digital games in regulating children’s emotions, in this study, we proposed principles for the design of a digital game to alleviate chil...
Single image dehazing is a difficult problem because of its ill-posed nature. Increasing attention has been paid recently as its high potential applications in many visual tasks. Although single image dehazing has made remarkable progress in recent y...
Intraregional spatial variations of satellite-derived anthropogenic nighttime light signals are gradually applied to identify different lighting areas with various socioeconomic activity and urbanization levels when characterizing urbanization dynami...
Image stitching refers to stitching two or more images with overlapping areas through feature points matching to generate a panoramic image, which plays an important role in geological survey, military reconnaissance, and other fields. At present, th...
A cloud structure construction algorithm adapted for the nighttime condition is proposed and evaluated. The algorithm expands the vertical information inferred from spaceborne radar and lidar via matching of infrared (IR) radiances and other properti...
Most object detection models cannot achieve satisfactory performance under nighttime and other insufficient illumination conditions, which may be due to the collection of data sets and typical labeling conventions. Public data sets collected for obje...
Background: As the world has become a 24 h society, people’s demands have generated various work schedules, leading to an increase in workers’ health problems. The study aimed to investigate the association between nighttime work and HbA1...
The potential use of satellite observed nighttime lights for estimating carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions has been demonstrated in several previous studies. However, the procedures for a moderate resolution (1 km2 grid cells) global map of fossil fuel C...
Africa has been experiencing a rapid urbanization process, which may lead to an increase in unsustainable land use and urban poverty. Assessing the spatiotemporal characteristics of urbanization dynamics is especially important and needed for the sus...
Georeferencing accuracy plays a crucial role in providing high-quality ready-to-use remote sensing data. The georeferencing of nighttime thermal satellite imagery conducted by matching to a basemap is challenging due to the complexity of thermal radi...
Fine classification of urban nighttime lighting is a key prerequisite step for small-scale nighttime urban research. In order to fill the gap of high-resolution urban nighttime light image classification and recognition research, this paper is based...
As the backbone and arteries of a comprehensive transportation network, highways play an important role in improving people’s living standards and promoting economic growth. However, globally, there is limited quantifiable data evaluating the h...
The satellite-observed nighttime light emission (NTLE) data provide a new method for scrutinizing the footprint of human settlements. Changing NTLEs can be attributed to the direct/indirect influences of highly complex factors that are beyond the abi...
Impaired visibility, a major global environmental threat, is a result of light scattering by atmospheric particulate matter. While digital photographs are increasingly used for daytime visibility estimation, such methods are largely ineffective at ni...
The Luojia1-01 satellite provides high-resolution, high-sensitivity nighttime light data at a resolution of 130 m. To effectively use the Luojia1-01 nighttime light data for global applications, the problems of relative and absolute positioning accur...
The daytime and nighttime precipitation proportions of daily total precipitation (especially extreme daily precipitation) are important indicators that help to understand the process of precipitation formation, which in turn helps to evaluate and imp...
Evidence shows that supplementary snacking could provide older adults with nutrients that cannot be obtained through three meals a day. However, whether and how supplementary snacking, especially nighttime snacking, affects older adults’ cognit...
Improving human well-being is increasingly recognized as essential for movement toward a sustainable and desirable future. Estimates of different aspects of human well-being, such as Gross Domestic Product, or percentage of population with access to...
The present study provides a comprehensive nighttime contrail characterization combining Raman lidar, ADS-B flight data, and ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis over southern France. Observations of different case studies of contrail formation and development thro...
Background: Variability in obstetric outcomes in terms of the number and type of deliveries related to the day–night cycle has been described in previous studies. This 11-year retrospective analysis explores the effects of nighttime versus dayt...
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