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

A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 February 2025 | Viewed by 533

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Di Liu

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Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Interests: nightlight remote sensing; moonlight remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; artificial intelligence applications of multisource remote sensing
Dr. Jiajun Li

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South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou 510300, China
Interests: nightlight remote sensing; marine ecology; fishing monitoring; light pollution
Dr. Weiying Lin

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Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: nightlight remote sensing; urban geography; urban greenspace; spatial analysis
Dr. Chengbin Deng

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Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, The Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Interests: remote sensing image processing; land use and land cover change; environmental change; urbanization
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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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Keywords

  • nightlight remote sensing
  • night-time thermal infrared remote sensing
  • night-time synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
  • ecological applications
  • human settlement applications
  • other night-time applications

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Tracking the Development of Lit Fisheries by Using DMSP/OLS Data in the Open South China Sea
by Jiajun Li, Zhixin Zhang, Kui Zhang, Jiangtao Fan, Huaxue Liu, Yongsong Qiu, Xi Li and Zuozhi Chen
Remote Sens. 2024, 16(19), 3678; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16193678 - 2 Oct 2024
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Nightly images offer a special data source for monitoring fishing activities. This study used images from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)/Operational Linescan System (OLS) to analyze the early development of lit fisheries in the open South China Sea (SCS), which mainly occurred [...] Read more.
Nightly images offer a special data source for monitoring fishing activities. This study used images from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)/Operational Linescan System (OLS) to analyze the early development of lit fisheries in the open South China Sea (SCS), which mainly occurred around the Zhong Sha and Xi Sha Islands. Based on peak detection and a fixed threshold, lit fishing positions were extracted well from filtered, high-quality DMSP/OLS images. The results indicated that fisheries experienced an apparent rise and fall from 2005 to 2012, with the numbers of lit fishing boats rising to a maximum of ~60 from 2005 to 2008, almost disappearing in 2009, peaking at ~130 from 2010 to 2011, and starting to decline in 2012. The fish price of major fishing targets declined by ~60% in 2009, which obviously impacted the year’s fishing operations. The reason for declined fishing operations in 2012 was that most of the lit fishing operations shifted farther south to fishing grounds around the Nan Sha Islands. We also explored factors shaping the distribution patterns of lit fisheries by using MaxEnt models to relate fishing positions to environmental variables. Major environmental factors influencing the distribution of lit fishing boats varied with years, of which water depth was the most important factor across years, with an optimal depth range of 1000–2000 m. In addition to depth, the distribution of lit fisheries was also influenced by SST, especially for the years 2005–2008, and a suitable SST was found between 26 and 28 °C. This study fills the knowledge gaps of the inception of lit fisheries and their dynamic changes in the SCS. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Technologies, Applications and Perspectives at Night: Nightlight, Nighttime Thermal Infrared and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR))
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