Overview of DMSP nightime lights and future possibilities

2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Elvidge, Christopher D ^a   Erwin, Edward H ^a   Baugh, Kimberly E ^b   Ziskin, Daniel ^b   Tuttle, Benjamin T ^c   Ghosh, Tilottama ^c   Sutton, Paul C ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; DIGITAL ARCHIVES; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; GLOBAL CLOUDS; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; LIGHT IMAGING; LINESCAN SYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITIES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

REMOTE SENSING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 70350176299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URS.2009.5137749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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