A Global Inventory of Urban Corridors Based on Perceptions and Night-Time Light Imagery

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Georg, Isabel ^a   Blaschke, Thomas ^a   Taubenböck, Hannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global urban mapping; Large urban areas; Night time lights; OpenStreetMap; Remote sensing; Urban area mapping; Urban corridors; Urban mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014922699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi5120233     Document Type: Article

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