Use of an inside buffer method to extract the extent of urban areas from DMSP/OLS nighttime light data in North China

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 444-458

  Tan, Minghong ^a  

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

Author keywords

DMSP OLS data; inside buffer model; northern China; over glow effects; urban areas

Indexed keywords

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA;

CHINA;

EID: 84961216837     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2016.1148832     Document Type: Article

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