Removing natural light from nighttime satellite images

My student Jacqueline Coesfeld recently developed an analysis that will be interesting for readers of the blog who work with satellite data. I summarized it in a series of tweets. You can click on the tweet to read the thread, or see the unrolled version here.

Jacqueline Coesfeld has developed a method to correct monthly Day/Night Band data from @eogatpayne to center areas with no light at zero. Link to the paper: https://t.co/mzcVSoUZ1o

Image shows the result for a random location in the Pacific Ocean. Thread 👇🏿 pic.twitter.com/pmLDdXkJAN

— Christopher Kyba (@skyglowberlin) June 9, 2020