Nighttime light derived assessment of regional inequality of socioeconomic development in China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1242-1262

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Inequality; Nighttime light; Socioeconomic development; Visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS)

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INFRARED IMAGING; LINEAR REGRESSION; ORBITS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOMETERS; REGIONAL PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

CHINA; INEQUALITY; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84928810594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70201242     Document Type: Article

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