Can night-time light data identify typologies of urbanization? A global assessment of successes and failures

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3476-3494

  Zhang, Qian ^a   Seto, Karen C ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; DMSP OLS; Urban growth; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DMSP/OLS; DMSP/OLS NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS; URBANIZATION;

URBAN GROWTH;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 84881493061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5073476     Document Type: Article

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