Reconstructing Three-decade Global Fine-Grained Nighttime Light Observations by a New Super-Resolution Framework

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Autori principali: Guo, Jinyu, Zhang, Feng, Zhao, Hang, Pan, Baoxiang, Mei, Linlu
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author Guo, Jinyu
Zhang, Feng
Zhao, Hang
Pan, Baoxiang
Mei, Linlu
author_facet Guo, Jinyu
Zhang, Feng
Zhao, Hang
Pan, Baoxiang
Mei, Linlu
contents Satellite-collected nighttime light provides a unique perspective on human activities, including urbanization, population growth, and epidemics. Yet, long-term and fine-grained nighttime light observations are lacking, leaving the analysis and applications of decades of light changes in urban facilities undeveloped. To fill this gap, we developed an innovative framework and used it to design a new super-resolution model that reconstructs low-resolution nighttime light data into high resolution. The validation of one billion data points shows that the correlation coefficient of our model at the global scale reaches 0.873, which is significantly higher than that of other existing models (maximum = 0.713). Our model also outperforms existing models at the national and urban scales. Furthermore, through an inspection of airports and roads, only our model's image details can reveal the historical development of these facilities. We provide the long-term and fine-grained nighttime light observations to promote research on human activities. The dataset is available at \url{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7859205}.
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spellingShingle Reconstructing Three-decade Global Fine-Grained Nighttime Light Observations by a New Super-Resolution Framework
Guo, Jinyu
Zhang, Feng
Zhao, Hang
Pan, Baoxiang
Mei, Linlu
Image and Video Processing
Satellite-collected nighttime light provides a unique perspective on human activities, including urbanization, population growth, and epidemics. Yet, long-term and fine-grained nighttime light observations are lacking, leaving the analysis and applications of decades of light changes in urban facilities undeveloped. To fill this gap, we developed an innovative framework and used it to design a new super-resolution model that reconstructs low-resolution nighttime light data into high resolution. The validation of one billion data points shows that the correlation coefficient of our model at the global scale reaches 0.873, which is significantly higher than that of other existing models (maximum = 0.713). Our model also outperforms existing models at the national and urban scales. Furthermore, through an inspection of airports and roads, only our model's image details can reveal the historical development of these facilities. We provide the long-term and fine-grained nighttime light observations to promote research on human activities. The dataset is available at \url{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7859205}.
title Reconstructing Three-decade Global Fine-Grained Nighttime Light Observations by a New Super-Resolution Framework
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07366