An Intensity Gradient/Vegetation Fractional Coverage Approach to Mapping Urban Areas from DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 95-103

  Tan, Minghong ^a  

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

Author keywords

China; Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) data; intensity gradient (IG) vegetation fractional coverage (VFC) method; United States urban areas

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; REMOTE SENSING;

DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; DMSP/OLS NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; INTENSITY GRADIENTS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LINESCAN SYSTEM; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LIGHT INTENSITY; MAPPING METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84975699605     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2566682     Document Type: Article

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