Mapping city lights with nighttime data from the DMSP Operational Linescan System

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 727-734

  Elvidge, Christopher D ^a,b   Baugh, Kimberly E ^c   Kihn, Eric A ^b   Kroehl, Herbert W ^b   Davis, Ethan R ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITY LIGHT; DMSP; EMISSION; LIGHT EMISSION; NEAR INFRARED; OPERATIONAL LINESCAN SYSTEM; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGING; URBAN AREA;

USA;

EID: 0031284885     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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