A Normalized Urban Areas Composite Index (NUACI) based on combination of DMSP-OLS and MODIS for mapping impervious surface area

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 17168-17189

  Liu, Xiaoping ^a   Hu, Guohua ^a   Ai, Bin ^a   Li, Xia ^a   Shi, Qian ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DMSP OLS; Impervious surface area; NUACI; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; PIXELS;

BLOOMING EFFECTS; DMSP-OLS; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; NUACI; SATURATION LIMITS; URBAN AREAS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962524629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71215863     Document Type: Article

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