Mapping sub-pixel urban expansion in China using MODIS and DMSP/OLS nighttime lights

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 175, Issue , 2016, Pages 92-108

  Huang, Xiaoman ^a   Schneider, Annemarie ^b   Friedl, Mark A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractional urban cover; MODIS; Nighttime lights; Random Forest regression

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DECISION TREES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND USE; MAPPING; PIXELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

CALIBRATION INFORMATION; DMSP/OLS NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; FRACTIONAL URBAN COVER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; RANDOM FORESTS; REGIONAL INFORMATION;

RADIOMETERS;

EXPANSION; LANDSAT; MAPPING; MODIS; PIXEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84953425743     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.042     Document Type: Article

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