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• Detecting Zimbabwe’s Decadal Economic Decline Using Nighttime Light Imagery

  Xi Li,Linlin Ge & Xiaoling Chen

  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...
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• Global Nighttime Light Change from 1992 to 2017: Brighter and More Uniform

  Yunfeng Hu, Yunzhi Zhang

  Nighttime light images record the brightness of the Earth surface, indicating the scope and intensity of human activities. However, there are few studies on the long-term...
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• Modeling and mapping total freight traffic in China using NPP-VIIRS nighttime...

  Kaifang Shi, Bailang Yu, Yingjie Hu, Chang Huang, Yun Chen, Yixiu Huang, Zuoqi Chen, Jianping Wu

  In early 2013, the first global Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS) nighttime light composite data were released....
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