Studying urban development and change in the contiguous United States using two scaled measures derived from nighttime lights data and population census

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-82

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

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contiguous United States; DMSP OLS nighttime lights; Population census; Urban development

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; METROPOLITAN AREA; REGIONAL PATTERN; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897020562     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2014.883212     Document Type: Article

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