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Title: | A simple self-adjusting model for correcting the blooming effects in DMSP-OLS nighttime light images | Authors: | Cao, X Hu, Y Zhu, X Shi, F Zhuo, L Chen, J |
Issue Date: | Apr-2019 | Source: | Remote sensing of environment, Apr. 2019, v. 224, p. 401-411 | Abstract: | Night-time light (NTL) data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operation Linescan System (OLS) provide important observations of human activities; however, DMSP-OLS NTL data suffer from problems such as saturation and blooming. This research developed a self-adjusting model (SEAM) to correct blooming effects in DMSP-OLS NTL data based on a spatial response function and without using any ancillary data. By assuming that the pixels adjacent to the background contain no lights (i.e., pseudo light pixels, PLPs), the blooming effect intensity, a parameter in the SEAM model, can be estimated by pixel-based regression using PLPs and their neighboring light sources. SEAM was applied to all of China, and its performance was assessed for twelve cities with different population sizes. The results show that SEAM can largely reduce the blooming effect in the original DMSP-OLS dataset and enhance its quality. The images after blooming effect correction have higher spatial similarity with Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) images and higher spatial variability than the original DMSP-OLS data. We also found that the average effective blooming distance is approximately 3.5 km in China, which may be amplified if the city is surrounded by water surfaces, and that the blooming effect intensity is positively correlated to atmospheric quality. The effectiveness of the proposed model will improve the capacity of DMSP-OLS images for mapping the urban extent and modeling socioeconomic parameters. | Keywords: | DMSP-OLS Nighttime light Blooming Spatial response function Self-adjusting model |
Publisher: | Elsevier | Journal: | Remote sensing of environment | ISSN: | 0034-4257 | EISSN: | 1879-0704 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.rse.2019.02.019 | Rights: | © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. © 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The following publication Cao, X., Hu, Y., Zhu, X., Shi, F., Zhuo, L., & Chen, J. (2019). A simple self-adjusting model for correcting the blooming effects in DMSP-OLS nighttime light images. Remote Sensing of Environment, 224, 401-411 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.02.019. |
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