The Vegetation adjusted NTL Urban Index: A new approach to reduce saturation and increase variation in nighttime luminosity

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 129, Issue , 2013, Pages 32-41

  Zhang, Qingling ^a   Schaaf, Crystal ^b   Seto, Karen C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Cities; DMSP OLS; MODIS; NDVI; Suomi NPP VIIRS; Sustainability; Urban energy use; Urban mapping; Urbanization; VANUI

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; CITIES; DMSP/OLS; MODIS; NDVI; SUOMI NPP/VIIRS; URBAN ENERGY; URBAN MAPPING; URBANIZATION; VANUI;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; RADIOMETERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

LUMINANCE;

CARBON EMISSION; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY USE; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; LUMINESCENCE; MAPPING METHOD; METEOROLOGY; MODIS; NDVI; POLICY MAKING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATURATION; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84869231658     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.022     Document Type: Article

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