NIGHT LIGHT
Satellite images of Earth at night — often referred to as "night lights"
References:
The dark side of Earth: Nasa releases the clearest images yet of our glittering planet at night:
NASA New Night Lights Maps Open Up Possible Real-Time Applications:
NOAA Nighttime Lights:
https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/nighttime-lights/
Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change Research Highlights--Nighttime View of Earth Reveals Size of Urban Sprawl:
https://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=4020
Christopher Small. Spatial analysis of global urban extent from DMSP-OLS night lights(2005):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425705000696
Christopher Small. Spatial scaling of stable night lights(2011):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425710002610
Night-time Lights Can Help Illuminate Trends in Urbanization:
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/11/11/night-time-lights-illuminate-trends-in-urbanization/
Monitoring urbanization dynamics in India using DMSP/OLS night time lights and SPOT-VGT data(2013):
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022343316630359
Min Zhao. Assessing Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Urbanization Dynamics in Southeast Asia Using Time Series of DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Data(2018):
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/1/47
Kunpeng Yi. Mapping and Evaluating the Urbanization Process in Northeast China Using DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Data(2014):