Investigating the rank-size relationship of urban areas using land cover maps

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Kinoshita, Tsuguki ^a   Kato, Etsushi ^b   Iwao, Koki ^c   Yamagata, Yoshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DATA SETS; GRID CELLS; LAND COVER MAPS; LAND COVERS; RANK ORDERS; URBAN AREAS; ZIPF'S LAWS;

LANDFORMS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; MAPPING; URBAN AREA;

EID: 57049159273     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035163     Document Type: Article

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