Latest Developments and Applications in Remote Sensing with Nighttime Lights II
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 4684
Special Issue Editors
Interests: light pollution; night sky brightness; atmospheric modeling measurements; astrophysics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is the second Special Issue concerning the Latest Developments and Applications in Remote Sensing with Nighttime Lights.
Over the last decade, it has become clear that constraining long-term trends from photometric night sky brightness measurements is a complex problem that involves many aspects, such as the quantification of instrumental effects (e.g., temporal changes in sensor sensitivity and spectral composition), atmospheric composition (e.g., impact of clouds and aerosols) and the environment (e.g., terrain, vegetation and albedo). While the impact of some of these aspects has been studied recently, to date, no physical framework exists that considers the coupling of several of these parameters. As a result, despite the numerous monitoring campaigns that have been established and are still operating, the temporal change observed in the night sky brightness assessed in these efforts remains an open question.
This Special Issue aims to address this knowledge gap through several pathways, such as combining state-of-the-art (atmospheric) modeling with existing empirical datasets concerned with light pollution, the atmosphere and meteorological conditions. Moreover, authors are invited to contribute to the further assessment of sensor aging effects, using novel or existing methods.
Articles may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Long-term trend assessment of light pollution;
- Impact of atmosphere on photometric night sky brightness measurements (models and empirical);
- Impact of terrain, vegetation and other meteorological conditions on photometric night sky brightness measurements (models and empirical);
- Source characterization;
- Instrumental effects, such as “sensor aging”.
Dr. Johannes Puschnig
Dr. Pietro Fiorentin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- night sky brightness
- light pollution
- light scattering
- long-term trends of light pollution
- photometric measurements
- atmospheric modeling
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