Comparative evaluation of relative calibration methods for DMSP/OLS nighttime lights

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 195, Issue , 2017, Pages 67-78

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

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

DMSP OLS time series; Inter calibration; Invariant regions; Systematic bias

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; TIME SERIES;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DMSP/OLS NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; INTERCALIBRATION; INVARIANT REGIONS; RELATIVE CALIBRATIONS; SYSTEMATIC BIAS;

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY USE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING BIAS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 85017665370     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.011     Document Type: Article

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