Evaluation of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data for Mapping Global Fossil Fuel Combustion CO2 Emissions: A Comparison with DMSP-OLS Nighttime Light Data
Fig 1
Three global emission maps derived from population counts and three different types of nighttime lights: NPP-VIIRS (a), RCP-DMSP-OLS (b), and SLP-DMSP-OLS (c).
The population data is from the U.S. Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE/ORNL), and the three nighttime lights are from the Earth Observation Group in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA/NGDC).