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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
FR2.R19: Nighttime Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development Goals (1/2)
Friday, 14 August, 11:00 - 12:15
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, 11:00 - 11:15

FR2.R19.1: Spectral Intensity of Artificial Light at Night Over North America
Jun Wang, University of Iowa; Zhixin Xue, The University of Iowa; Meng Zhou, Qian Xiao, ; Jim Carr, Xiong Liu, Carr Astronautics
Fri, 14 Aug, 11:15 - 11:30

FR2.R19.2: DASYMETRIC DOWNSCALING AND SHARPENING OF HISTORICAL VIIRS NIGHTTIME LIGHT DATA USING SDGSAT-1 AND GLOBAL HUMAN SETTLEMENT DATA
Johannes H. Uhl, European Commission; Panagiotis Politis, European Dynamics Belgium S.A.; Martino Pesaresi, Michele Melchiorri, Thomas Kemper, European Commission; Linlin Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fri, 14 Aug, 11:30 - 11:45

FR2.R19.3: Advances in Lunar Irradiance Modeling for Day/Night Band Nocturnal Applications
Steven Miller, Cynthia Combs, Yoo-Jeong Noh, Colorado State University
Fri, 14 Aug, 11:45 - 12:00

FR2.R19.4: Rural House Vacancy Rate Estimation via Transfer Learning with Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data
Peiran Li, Hitotsubashi University; Jundong Chen, Shiga University; Xinlei Shao, The University of Tokyo; Dou Huang, LocationMind; Wenru Zhang, The University of Tokyo; Chihiro Shimizu, Hitotsubashi University; Linchuan Yang, Southeast Jiaotong University
Fri, 14 Aug, 12:00 - 12:15

FR2.R19.5: A TRANSFERABLE SPATIO-TEMPORAL GRAPH LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 7 ELECTRIFICATION MAPPING IN AFRICA
Jingru Wang, Dong Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Zhu Han, Beijing University of Technology; Hansong Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen