Spatial scaling of stable night lights

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 269-280

  Small, Christopher ^a   Elvidge, Christopher D ^b   Balk, Deborah ^c   Montgomery, Mark ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Land cover; Landsat; Night light; Power law; Scaling; Urban; Zipf

Indexed keywords

LAND COVER; LANDSAT; NIGHT LIGHTS; POWER LAW; SCALING; URBAN; ZIPF;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ECONOMICS; ESTIMATION; LANDFORMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SECURITY OF DATA; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CENSUS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 78650922809     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.021     Document Type: Article

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