The integrated use of DMSP-OLS nighttime light and MODIS data for monitoring large-scale impervious surface dynamics: A case study in the Yangtze River Delta

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9359-9378

  Shao, Zhenfeng ^a   Liu, Chong ^a  

^a Mapping and Remote Sensing   (China)

Author keywords

Impervious surface; Nighttime light; Spatially adaptive regression model; Temporally stable signature; VANUI; Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; REGRESSION MODEL; TEMPORALLY STABLE SIGNATURE; VANUI; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84923599778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6109359     Document Type: Article

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