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Why VIIRS data are superior to DMSP for mapping nighttime lights?
Christopher D. Elvidge, Kimberly Baugh, Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng Chi Hsu
For more than forty years the U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) has been the only system collecting global low...
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