A Robust Method to Generate a Consistent Time Series from DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5821-5831

  Zhang, Qingling ^a,b,c   Pandey, Bhartendu ^a   Seto, Karen C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^c SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Calibration sites; intersensor calibration; ridge regression; ridge sampling and regression; ridgeline sampling regression (RSR); satellite image normalization

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

CALIBRATION MODEL; DMSP/OLS NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; LONG TIME SERIES; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; PSEUDO-INVARIANT FEATURES; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; TEMPORAL SIGNALS;

TIME SERIES;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; NUMERICAL METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84974830958     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2572724     Document Type: Article

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