Night-time imagery as a tool for global mapping of socioeconomic parameters and greenhouse gas emissions

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Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 157-162

  Doll, Christopher N H ^a,b   Muller, Jan Peter ^a,c,d   Elvidge, Christopher D ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0034078202     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-29.3.157     Document Type: Article

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27. The authors wish to thank Kimberly Baugh at NOAA-NGDC for processing the night-time data, and Glenn Larson at CGRER, University of Iowa for assistance with the world cities dataset. We are also very grateful to two referees for their constructive comments. This work is supported by NERC studentship GT04/98/ 188/TS.
28. First submitted 26 July 1999. Accepted for publication after revision 21 Dec. 1999.