Building and evaluating models to estimate ambient population density

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 545-553

  Sutton, Paul C ^a   Elvidge, Chris ^b   Obremski, Tom ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOGRAMMETRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SATELLITES;

EMPIRICAL MODELS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038477063     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.69.5.545     Document Type: Review

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