Paving the planet: Impervious surface as proxy measure of the human ecological footprint

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 510-527

  Sutton, Paul C ^a   Anderson, Sharolyn J ^a   Elvidge, Christopher D ^b   Tuttle, Benjamin T ^a,b   Ghosh, Tilottama ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DMSP OLS; Ecological footprint; Impervious surface; Nighttime satellite imagery; Sustainability index

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CALIBRATION; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MODIS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 70350451311     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133309346649     Document Type: Article

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