Using nighttime DMSP/OLS images of city lights to estimate the impact of urban land use on soil resources in the United States

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-117

  Imhoff, Marc L ^a   Lawrence, William T ^c   Elvidge, Christopher D ^c   Paul, Tera ^a   Levine, Elissa ^a   Privalsky, Maria V ^c   Brown, Virginia ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Biospheric Sciences Branch ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CITY LIGHT; DMSP/OLS; FERTILITY IMPACT; LAND USE; SATELLITE IMAGING; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL RESOURCES; URBAN AREA; URBAN LAND USE;

USA;

APOGON BRACHYGRAMMUS;

AGRICULTURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND USE; MAPS; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIGITAL SOILS MAP;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030617351     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00110-1     Document Type: Article

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