Timely and accurate national-scale mapping of urban land in China using defense meteorological satellite program's operational linescan system nighttime stable light data

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Yang ^a,b   He, Chunyang ^a   Zhang, Qiaofeng ^c   Han, Lijian ^d   Du, Shiqiang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System; National scale; Nighttime stable light; Normalized difference vegetation index; Stratified support vector machine; Urban land

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MAPPING; NETWORK SECURITY; SATELLITES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VEGETATION;

CHINA; LINESCAN SYSTEM; NATIONAL SCALE; NIGHTTIME STABLE LIGHTS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84887430640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.7.073535     Document Type: Article

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