A Comparison of High and Low Gain DMSP/OLS Satellite Images for the Study of Socio-Economic Metrics

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-42

  Roychowdhury, Koel ^a   Jones, Simon D ^a   Arrowsmith, Colin ^a   Reinke, Karin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Demography; developing nations; remote sensing; urban areas

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING NATIONS; EARTH SURFACE; FOREST FIRES; GAIN SETTINGS; GAS FLARES; LINESCAN; LINESCAN SYSTEM; PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; POPULATION DENSITIES; SATELLITE IMAGES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC METRICS; SPATIAL SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURROGATE METHODS; URBAN AREAS;

DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SURVEYS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING WORLD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA;

EID: 79953109919     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2053022     Document Type: Article

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