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Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5675-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5675-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 10
Data description article
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28 Oct 2025
Data description article |  | 28 Oct 2025

A high-quality daily nighttime light (HDNTL) dataset for global 600+ cities (2012–2024)

Zixuan Pei, Xiaolin Zhu, Yang Hu, Jin Chen, and Xiaoyue Tan

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Nighttime light (NTL) data aids urban planning and disaster monitoring. Our study introduces HDNTL, a daily NTL dataset for 653 major cities (population >1 M by 2025) from 2012–2024, enhancing NASA's VNP46A2 accuracy by correcting spatial mismatches, angular effects, and filling small data holes via spatiotemporal interpolation. Validated against high-resolution NTL datasets and ground-truth records, HDNTL enables precise monitoring of nighttime human activities.
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