Estimating House Vacancy Rate in Metropolitan Areas Using NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Composite Data

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

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2188-2197

  Chen, Zuoqi ^a   Yu, Bailang ^a   Hu, Yingjie ^b   Huang, Chang ^c   Shi, Kaifang ^a   Wu, Jianping ^a  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

House vacancy rate (HVR); nighttime light (NTL) composite data; NPP VIIRS; USA

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ORBITS; STATISTICS; URBAN GROWTH;

ECONOMIC RESOURCES; LAND COVER INFORMATIONS; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; NPP-VIIRS; RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET; STATISTICAL DATAS; STRONG CORRELATION; USA;

HOUSES;

CORRELATION; FIELD SURVEY; LAND COVER; METROPOLITAN AREA; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DATA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN HOUSING; VISUALIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027938756     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2418201     Document Type: Article

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