Virginia L. Kalb

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the relationship between the NDVI and a global vegetation data-base, including field metabolic measurements and carbon-balance results from global simulation models, and found that the strength of the relationship was comparable to that of earlier climate-based productivity models.

TL;DR: The Black Marble nighttime lights product suite (VNP46) is available at 500m resolution since January 2012 with data from the VISible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Platform (SNPP) as discussed by the authors, which utilizes all high-quality, cloud-free, atmospheric-, terrain-, vegetation-, snow-, lunar-, and stray light-corrected radiances to estimate daily nighttime lights (NTL) and other intrinsic surface optical properties.

TL;DR: In this article, the spectral vegetation index measurements provided a general indicator of vegetation activity across the major biomes of the Western Hemisphere of the earth, including tropical regions, and the satellite-observed patterns are strongly related to the known climatology of the continents and may offer a means to improve understanding of global bioclimatology.

TL;DR: The approach developed in this study demonstrates the potential of satellite-based estimates of power recovery to improve the real-time monitoring of disaster impacts, globally, at a spatial resolution that is actionable for the disaster response community.

TL;DR: The Black Marble nighttime lights product suite (VNP46) is available at 500m resolution since January 2012 as discussed by the authors with data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Platform (SNPP).