Mapping impervious surface distribution with integration of SNNP VIIRS-DNB and MODIS NDVI Data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 12459-12477

  Guo, Wei ^a   Lu, Dengsheng ^b   Wu, Yanlan ^a   Zhang, Jixian ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

Author keywords

Impervious surface area; Landsat 8 OLI; Large scale impervious surface index; MODIS NDVI; VIIRS DNB

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED IMAGING; MAPPING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; ORBITS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA; LANDSAT; MODIS NDVI; VIIRS-DNB;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 84942546643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70912459     Document Type: Article

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