Modeling the spatiotemporal dynamics of electric power consumption in mainland China using saturation-corrected DMSP/OLS nighttime stable light data

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 993-1014

  He, Chunyang ^a   Ma, Qun ^a   Liu, Zhifeng ^a   Zhang, Qiaofeng ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DMSP OLS nighttime stable light data; Electric power consumption (EPC); Mainland China; Saturation correction; Spatiotemporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FORESTRY; PIXELS; VEGETATION;

AVERAGE ANNUAL GROWTH RATES; AVERAGE RELATIVE ERROR; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION; MAINLAND CHINAS; NIGHTTIME STABLE LIGHTS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY USE; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; MODELING; NDVI; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPOT;

CHINA;

EID: 84884179306     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2013.822026     Document Type: Article

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