Estimation of light pollution using satellite remote sensing and geographic information system techniques

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 609-621

  Butt, Mohsin ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; LIGHT POLLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN REGION;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 84864607706     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.49.4.609     Document Type: Article

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