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The nighttime light (NTL) data can aptly reflect the spatial distribution of social-economic activities and energy consumption, and quantitatively estimate the anthropogenic heat flux (AHF) distribution. However, the commonly used DMSP\/OLS and Suomi-NPP\/VIIRS NTL data are restricted by their coarse spatial resolution and, therefore, cannot exhibit the spatial details of AHF at city scale. The 130 m high-resolution NTL data obtained by Luojia 1-01 satellite launched in June 2018 shows a promise to solve this problem. In this paper, the gridded AHF spatial estimation is achieved with a resolution of 130 m using Luojia 1-01 NTL data based on three indexes, NTLnor (Normalized Nighttime Light Data), HSI (Human Settlement Index), and VANUI (Vegetation Adjusted NTL Urban Index). We chose Jiangsu, a fast-developing province in China, as an example to determine the best AHF estimation model among the three indexes. The AHF of 96 county-level cities of the province was first calculated using energy-consumption statistics data and then correlated with the corresponding data of three indexes. The results show that based on a 5-fold cross-validation approach, the VANUI power estimation model achieves the highest R2 of 0.8444 along with the smallest RMSE of 4.8277 W\u00b7m\u22122 and therefore has the highest accuracy among the three indexes. According to the VANUI power estimation model, the annual mean AHF of Jiangsu in 2018 was 2.91 W\u00b7m\u22122. Of the 96 cities, Suzhou has the highest annual mean AHF of 7.41 W\u00b7m\u22122, followed by Wuxi, Nanjing, Changzhou and Zhenjiang, with the annual mean of 3.80\u20135.97 W\u00b7m\u22122, while the figures of Suqian, Yancheng, Lianyungang, and Huaian, the cities in northern Jiangsu, are relatively low, ranging from 1.41 to 1.59 W\u00b7m\u22122. This study has shown that the AHF estimation model developed by Luojia 1-01 NTL data can achieve higher accuracy at city-scale and discriminate the spatial detail of AHF effectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12223707","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,12]],"date-time":"2020-11-12T10:00:32Z","timestamp":1605175232000},"page":"3707","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Anthropogenic Heat Flux Estimation Based on Luojia 1-01 New Nighttime Light Data: A Case Study of Jiangsu Province, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Zhongli","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350118, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7158-466X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hanqiu","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Environment and Resources, Key Laboratory of Spatial Data Mining &amp; Information Sharing of Ministry of Education, Institute of Remote Sensing Information Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing of Soil Erosion, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"120","DOI":"10.1016\/S1001-0742(08)60019-4","article-title":"A review on the generation, determination and mitigation of Urban Heat Island","volume":"20","author":"Rizwan","year":"2008","journal-title":"J. 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