Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data

Exploring carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities is essential for urban energy conservation and resource management. Remotely sensed nighttime lights from the Suomi NPP-VIIRS provide spatial consistency in and a low-cost way of revealing CO2 emissions. Although many researches have doc...

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Main Authors: Kaifang Shi, Jingwei Shen, Yizhen Wu, Shirao Liu, Linyi Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-11-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Earth
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2021.1946605
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Jingwei Shen
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Linyi Li
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description Exploring carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities is essential for urban energy conservation and resource management. Remotely sensed nighttime lights from the Suomi NPP-VIIRS provide spatial consistency in and a low-cost way of revealing CO2 emissions. Although many researches have documented the feasibility of the Suomi NPP-VIIRS data for assessing CO2 emissions, few have systematically revealed the ability of nighttime lights for evaluating CO2 emissions from different industries, such as service industry CO2 emissions (SC), traffic CO2 emissions (TC), and secondary industry CO2 emissions (IC). Here, China was selected as the experimental subject, and we comprehensively explored the relationships between the nighttime lights and SC, TC, and IC, and investigated the factors mediating these relationships. We found that without considering other factors, the nighttime lights only revealed up to 51.2% of TC, followed by 41.7% of IC and 22.7% of SC. When controlling for city characteristic variables, the models showed that there were positive correlations between the Suomi NPP-VIIRS data and SC, IC, and TC, and that nighttime lights have an Inverted-U relationship with SC. The Suomi NPP-VIIRS data are more suitable for revealing SC, TC, and IC in medium-sized and large-sized cities than in small-sized cities and megacities.
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spelling doaj.art-489c03a260f54612a1c144cea000a97b2023-09-21T14:57:10ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Digital Earth1753-89471753-89552021-11-0114111514152710.1080/17538947.2021.19466051946605Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light dataKaifang Shi0Jingwei Shen1Yizhen Wu2Shirao Liu3Linyi Li4Southwest UniversitySouthwest UniversitySouthwest UniversitySouthwest UniversityWuhan UniversityExploring carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities is essential for urban energy conservation and resource management. Remotely sensed nighttime lights from the Suomi NPP-VIIRS provide spatial consistency in and a low-cost way of revealing CO2 emissions. Although many researches have documented the feasibility of the Suomi NPP-VIIRS data for assessing CO2 emissions, few have systematically revealed the ability of nighttime lights for evaluating CO2 emissions from different industries, such as service industry CO2 emissions (SC), traffic CO2 emissions (TC), and secondary industry CO2 emissions (IC). Here, China was selected as the experimental subject, and we comprehensively explored the relationships between the nighttime lights and SC, TC, and IC, and investigated the factors mediating these relationships. We found that without considering other factors, the nighttime lights only revealed up to 51.2% of TC, followed by 41.7% of IC and 22.7% of SC. When controlling for city characteristic variables, the models showed that there were positive correlations between the Suomi NPP-VIIRS data and SC, IC, and TC, and that nighttime lights have an Inverted-U relationship with SC. The Suomi NPP-VIIRS data are more suitable for revealing SC, TC, and IC in medium-sized and large-sized cities than in small-sized cities and megacities.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2021.1946605nighttime light datasuomi npp-viirsco2 emissionstransmission mechanismchina
spellingShingle Kaifang Shi
Jingwei Shen
Yizhen Wu
Shirao Liu
Linyi Li
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data
International Journal of Digital Earth
nighttime light data
suomi npp-viirs
co2 emissions
transmission mechanism
china
title Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data
title_full Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data
title_fullStr Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data
title_full_unstemmed Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data
title_short Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data
title_sort carbon dioxide co2 emissions from the service industry traffic and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data
topic nighttime light data
suomi npp-viirs
co2 emissions
transmission mechanism
china
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2021.1946605
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