Preface: Remote sensing of night-time light Xi Li, Christopher Elvidge, Yuyu Zhou, Changyong Cao and Timothy A. Warner 1. VIIRS nighttime lights Christopher D Elvidge, Kimberly Baugh, Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng Chi Hsu and Tilottama Ghosh 2. Assessment of straylight correction performance for the VIIRS day/night band using Dome-C and Greenland under lunar illumination Shi Qiu, Xi Shao, Chang Yong Cao, Sirish Uprety and Wen Hui Wang 3. Improving accuracy of economic estimations with VIIRS DNB image products Naizhuo Zhao, Feng-Chi Hsu, Guofeng Cao and Eric L. Samson 4. A new multichannel threshold algorithm based on radiative transfer characteristics for detecting fog/ low stratus using night-time NPP/VIIRS data. Shensen Hu, Shuo Ma, Wei Yan, Jun Jiang and Yunxian Huang 5. Intercalibration between DMSP/OLS and VIIRS night-time light images to evaluate city light dynamics of Syria’s major human settlement during Syrian Civil War Xi Li, Deren Li, Huimin Xu and Chuanqing Wu 6. Outdoor light and breast cancer incidence: a comparative analysis of DMSP and VIIRS-DNB satellite data Nataliya A. Rybnikova and Boris A. Portnov 7. Using multitemporal night-time lights data to compare regional development in Russia and China, 1992–2012 Mia M. Bennett and Laurence C. Smith 8. The short-term economic impact of tropical Cyclone Pam: an analysis using VIIRS nightlight satellite imagery Preeya Mohan and Eric Strobl 9. Port economics comprehensive scores for major cities in the Yangtze Valley, China using the DMSPOLS night-time light imagery Chang Li, Guangping Chen, Jing Luo, Shice Li and Jia Ye 10. Urban mapping using DMSP/OLS stable night-time light: a review Xuecao Li and Yuyu Zhou 11. Analysis of urbanization dynamics in mainland China using pixel-based night-time light trajectories from 1992 to 2013 Yang Ju, Iryna Dronova, Qin Ma and Xiang Zhang 12. Assessing urban growth dynamics of major Southeast Asian cities using Night-Time Light data Shankar Acharya Kamarajugedda, Pradeep V Mandapaka and Edmond Y.M Lo 13. A Novel Method for Urban Area Extraction from VIIRS DNB and MODIS NDVI Data: A Case Study of Chinese Cities Qiao Zhang, Ping Wang, Hui Chen, Qinglun Huang, Hongbing Jiang, Zijian Zhang, Yanmei Zhang, Xiang Luo and Shujuan Sun 14. Monitoring urban expansion using time series of night-time light data: a case study in Wuhan, China Xin Xin, Bin Liu, Kaichang Di, Zhe Zhu, Zhongyuan Zhao, Jia Liu, Zongyu Yue and Guo Zhang 15. Predicting potential fishing zones of Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus) using remotely sensed images in coastal waters of south-western Hokkaido, Japan Xun Zhang, Sei-Ichi Saitoh and Toru Hirawake