Night-time light derived estimation of spatio-temporal characteristics of urbanization dynamics using DMSP/OLS satellite data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 158, Issue , 2015, Pages 453-464

  Ma, Ting ^a   Zhou, Yuke ^a   Zhou, Chenghu ^a   Haynie, Susan ^b   Pei, Tao ^a   Xu, Tao ^a,c  

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

^b Demographic Consulting Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China's cities; DMSP OLS; Night time light; Quadratic relationship; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DYNAMICS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; EXPANSION; LIGHTING; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; SATELLITES; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINA'S CITIES; DMSP/OLS; NIGHT TIME LIGHTS; QUADRATIC RELATIONSHIP; URBANIZATION;

LUMINANCE;

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84921306552     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.11.022     Document Type: Article

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