Assessing light pollution in China based on nighttime light imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Jiang, Wei ^a,b   He, Guojin ^a,c,d   Long, Tengfei ^a,c,d   Wang, Chen ^e   Ni, Yuan ^a,f   Ma, Ruiqi ^g,h  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Key Laboratory of Earth Observation Hainan Province   (China)

^d Key Laboratory of the Earth Observation of Hainan Province   (China)

^e Satellite Environment Center   (China)

^f FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; DMSP OLS; Light pollution; Nighttime light; Nighttime light index

Indexed keywords

POLLUTION;

BEIJING-TIANJIN-HEBEI REGIONS; CHINA; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM / OPERATIONAL LINESCAN SYSTEM; DMSP/OLS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LIGHT POLLUTION; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

EID: 85013626135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9020135     Document Type: Article

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