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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
FR3.R19: Nighttime Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development Goals (2/2)
Friday, 14 August, 13:45 - 15:00
Location: Piscataway
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Ranjay Shrestha, and Zhuosen Wang, and Shengjie Kris Liu, University of Southern California
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Fri, 14 Aug, 13:45 - 14:00

FR3.R19.1: Advancing Global Applications with the New Collections of NASA's Black Marble Nighttime Lights Product
Ranjay Shrestha, SSAI/NASA GSFC, United States; Zhuosen Wang, University of Maryland College Park/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Miguel Román, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Srija Chakraborty, University Space Research Association, United States
Fri, 14 Aug, 14:00 - 14:15

FR3.R19.2: On the use of nighttime light data in support of SDG progress monitoring for global cities
Tomohiro Oda, David Bell, Universities Space Research Association, United States; Lesley Ott, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; John Vicino, Srija Chakraborty, Universities Space Research Association, United States; Eleni Kostis, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Matthew Hefner, Independent, United States; Zhuosen Wang, Miguel Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Makoto Saito, Shamil Maksyutov, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Hiroshi Suto, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; Rostyslav Bun, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine; Ryanna Neithram, University of Maryland, College Park, United States; Zbigniew Klimont, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; Paul Palmer, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Brad Weir, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; Oksana Tarasova, World Meteorological Organization, Switzerland
Fri, 14 Aug, 14:15 - 14:30

FR3.R19.3: NATIONWIDE POWER OUTAGE ANALYSIS: ESTIMATING CUSTOMER IMPACT ACROSS RURAL AND URBAN COUNTIES
Alexandra Kahl, Anukesh Krishnan Kutty Ambika, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Fri, 14 Aug, 14:30 - 14:45

FR3.R19.4: Attributing Post-Disaster Nighttime Light Reduction to Power Outage and Population Evacuation via A Counterfactual Framework
Ruiyu Liu, Takashi Machimura, The University of Osaka, Japan
Fri, 14 Aug, 14:45 - 15:00

FR3.R19.5: ENHANCEMENTS IN NASA’S COLLECTION 2 BLACK MARBLE NIGHTTIME LIGHT PRODUCTS IN SUPPORT OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Zhuosen Wang, University of Maryland College Park, United States; Ranjay Shrestha, Science Systems and Applications Inc., United States; Virginia Kalb, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States; Tian Li, Cornell University, United States; Zhe Zhu, University of Connecticut, United States; Miguel Román, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States