Table 1 Datasets for production and evaluation of CCNL dataset.

DMSP-OLS Data

Stable Lights product

NTL data

1992–2013

Raster data

Elvidge et al.⁷; Baugh et al.³²

Radiance Calibrated product

NTL data

1996, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2010

Raster data

Elvidge et al.¹⁶; Hsu et al.²⁹

Auxiliary Data

NPP-VIIRS

NTL data

2013

Raster data

Elvidge et al.¹

EANTLI

NTL data

2013

Raster data

Zhuo et al.²¹

GAIA

Urban area

1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2018

Vector data

Gong et al.³⁴

UrbanLand

Urban area

1992, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2010, and 2016

Raster data

He et al.³⁵

socio-economic data

Statistical data

1992–2013

Textual data

World bank