Detecting Light Outages After Severe Storms Using the S-NPP/VIIRS Day/Night Band Radiances

作者：Cao Changyong^*; Shao Xi; Uprety Sirish

来源：IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2013, 10(6): 1582-1586.

DOI：10.1109/LGRS.2013.2262258

• Day/night band (DNB)
• derecho
• Hurricane Sandy
• light/power outage detection
• nighttime remote sensing
• Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Visible
• Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)

Power outages after a major storm affect the lives of millions of people and cause massive light outages. The launch of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite with the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) significantly enhances our capability to monitor and detect light outages with the well-calibrated day/night band (DNB) and to use light loss signatures as indication of regional power outages. This study explores the use of the DNB in quantifying light outages due to the derecho storm in the Washington DC metropolitan area in June 2012 and Hurricane Sandy at the end of October 2012 on the East Coast of U.S. The results show that the DNB data are very useful in detecting power outages by quantifying light loss, but it also has some challenges due to clouds, lunar illumination, and straylight effect. Comparison of light outage and recovery trend determined from DNB data with power company survey shows reasonable agreement, demonstrating the usefulness of DNB in independently verifying and complementing the statistics from power companies.

• 出版日期2013-11