Coupling an intercalibration of radiance-calibrated nighttime light images and land use/cover data for modeling and analyzing the distribution of GDP in Guangdong, China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Cao, Ziyang ^a,b   Wu, Zhifeng ^c   Kuang, Yaoqiu ^a   Huang, Ningsheng ^a   Wang, Meng ^a,b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DMSP OLS; GDP spatial distribution; Guangdong; Intercalibration; Radiance calibrated nighttime light images

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; NDVI; NUMERICAL METHOD; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG;

EID: 84960453613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8020108     Document Type: Article

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