The working group coordinates an international English-language seminar series on remote sensing using nighttime lights, which takes place roughly six times per year. The seminar is usually held either in the morning (to allow people from Asia to participate) or the late afternoon or early evening (to allow people from the Americas to participate). Students and remote sensing practitioners from around the world are warmly invited to attend. To receive notices of upcoming speakers and the link to join the meeting, sign up here.

The upcoming speakers are:

• September 15 (10:00 CEST): "Public lighting management over the French Haute-Savoie department using SDGSAT-1 data". Emma Bousquet Borrut (Cerema)
• October 8 (16:00 CEST): "A continental-scale inventory of lighting technology with TEMPO spectroscopy". Jim Carr (Carr Astronautics)

These are the previous talks in the series:

• October 6, 2025: "A geospatial perspective on electrification strategy in urbanizing Africa". Jessica Kersey (UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group), Sam Miles (Johns Hopkins University), and Vivek Sakhrani (AtlasAI)
• December 3, 2025: "Night lights from space: potential of SDGSAT-1 for ecological applications". Dominique Weber (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL)
• February 2, 2026: "A new archive of georeferenced and radiance calibrated ISS photographs". Alejandro Sanchez de Miguel (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
• March 9, 2026: "Global analysis of road lighting outside of cities". Camille Labrousse (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• April 16, 2026: "Night Lights Remote Sensing user consultation". Christopher Kyba (Ruhr University Bochum)
• June 18, 2026: "How artificial light at night reshapes ecosystem metabolism: insights from satellites and flux towers". Alice Johnston (Cranfield University)