Assessing the utility of DMSP/OLS night-time images for characterizing Indian urbanization

2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Roychowdhury, Koel ^a   Jones, Simon ^a   Arrowsmith, Colin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; GLOBAL POPULATION; LATIN AMERICA; LINESCAN SYSTEM; POPULATION DATA; SPACEBORNE SYSTEMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SCALE; THERMAL EMISSIONS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN LOCATIONS; VISIBLE LIGHT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 70350166979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URS.2009.5137620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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