Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the service industry, traffic, and secondary industry as revealed by the remotely sensed nighttime light data
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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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An inverted U-shape was found by Anser et al. [19] in the case of 26 EU countries, by Faisal et al. [187] in the case of BRICS countries (minus Russia), and by Shi et al. [166] in the case of China.
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- Authors
- Shi, K., Shen, J., Wu, Y., Liu, S., & Li, L.
- Affiliations
- Southwest University (CN)
- Wuhan University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Li, Linyi
- Venue
- International Journal of Digital Earth
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-06-30
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1514-1527
- ISSN
- 1753-8947 (ISSN-L)
- 1753-8955
- OpenAlex
- W3173415329
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 5
- FWCI
- 3.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Digital Earth (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (QYZDB-SSW-DQC011)
- MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (18XJC790011)
- Fundamental Research Founds for the Central Universities (XDJK2020B008)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Keywords
- CO2 emissions, nighttime lights, Suomi NPP VIIRS, vehicle emissions, urban energy consumption, inverted U-shaped relationship, city size, China
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