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Under growing demands from the World Bank and environmental defenders, many producer countries are devoted to decreasing gas flaring. For this reason, several researchers in the oil and gas industry, academia, and governments are working to propose new methods for estimating flared gas volumes, and among the most used techniques are those that exploit remote sensing data, particularly Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Nighttime Light (NTL) ones. Indeed, it is possible to extract, from such data, some physical parameters of flames produced by gas flares. In this investigation, a linear spectral unmixing-based approach, which addresses the spectral variability phenomenon, was designed to estimate accurate physical parameters from VIIRS NTL data. Then, these parameters are used to derive flared gas volumes through intercepting zero polynomial regression models that exploit in situ measurements. Experiments based on synthetic data were first conducted to validate the proposed linear spectral unmixing-based approach. Second, experiments based on real VIIRS NTL data covering the flare, named FIT-M8-101A-1U and located in the Berkine basin (Hassi Messaoud) in Algeria, were carried out. 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