Table 1 Data sources for production and evaluation of SVNL dataset.

From: A global annual simulated VIIRS nighttime light dataset from 1992 to 2023

Name

Description

Temporal range

Format

Source

DMSP

The version 4 DMSP annual stable NTL product

1992–2013

Raster

https://eogdata.mines.edu/products/dmsp/#v4_dmsp_download

VIIRS

The version 2 annual VIIRS NTL product

2013–2023

Raster

https://eogdata.mines.edu/products/vnl/#annual_v2

Landsat NDVI

The NDVI data drived from Landsat images

1992–2013

Raster

GEE platform

ChenVNL

The global extended VIIRS-Like NTL dataset provided by Chen et al.

2000–2023

Raster

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YGIVCD

LiDNL

The harmonized global DMSP-like NTL dataset provided by Li et al.

1992–2018

Raster

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9828827.v2

GDP

The national GDP statistics from the World Bank website

1992–2020

Statistic data

https://data.worldbank.org

GADM

The administrative boundary data

 

Vector data

http://www.gadm.org