Global night-time lights for observing human activity

34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment - The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hipskind, S ^a   Elvidge, C ^b   Gurney, K ^c   Imhoff, M ^d   Bounoua, L ^d   Sheffner, E ^a   Nemani, R ^a   Pettit, D ^e   Fischer, M ^f  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2 emissions; Human settlement; Smallsat; Urban

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DATA; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; EMISSION DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; OPERATIONAL LINESCAN SYSTEM (OLS); SMALL SATELLITE MISSION; SMALLSAT; URBAN;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FOSSIL FUELS; NASA; REMOTE SENSING;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84879760185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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