Nighttime light remote sensing: Monitoring human societies from outer space

Remote Sensing of Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban Studies

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 289-310

  Zhang, Qingling ^a   Levin, Noam ^b   Chalkias, Christos ^c   Letu, Husi ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES;

HUMAN SOCIETY; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; OUTER SPACE;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85009207176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b19321     Document Type: Chapter

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