Monitoring urbanization dynamics in india using DMSP/OLS night time lights and SPOT-VGT data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-61

  Pandey, Bhartendu ^a   Joshi, P K ^a   Seto, Karen C ^b  

^a TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Intercalibration; Landscape metrics; Night time lights; Support vector machine; Urban growth

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

INDIA; KERALA; PUNJAB [INDIA]; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84880304629     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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