Diverse relationships between Suomi-NPP VIIRS night-time light and multi-scale socioeconomic activity

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 652-661

  Ma, Ting ^a   Zhou, Yuke ^a   Wang, Yingjie ^a   Zhou, Chenghu ^a   Haynie, Susan ^b   Xu, Tao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b Demographic Consulting Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; IMAGE RESOLUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

CONDITIONAL QUANTILES; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; NIGHT TIME LIGHTS; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES REGRESSIONS; QUANTILE REGRESSION; SATELLITE BASED OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

ORBITS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; METEOROLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

FINLAND;

EID: 84907891871     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2014.953263     Document Type: Article

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