A new method for estimating carbon dioxide emissions from transportation at fine spatial scales

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Shu, Yuqin ^a,b   Lam, Nina S N ^b   Reams, Margaret ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance decay; Geographic information systems; Transportation; Volume preserving interpolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751526887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/4/044008     Document Type: Article

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