Ongoing conflict makes Yemen dark: From the perspective of nighttime light

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Jiang, Wei ^a,b   He, Guojin ^a,c,d   Long, Tengfei ^a,c,d   Liu, Huichan ^a,c,d  

^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)

Author keywords

Nighttime light imagery; NPP VIIRS; Remote sensing; Time series; Yemen crisis

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; ORBITS; REMOTE SENSING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); TIME SERIES;

DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM / OPERATIONAL LINESCAN SYSTEM; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCES; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; NPP/VIIRS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSIS; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES; YEMEN CRISIS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 85028303123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9080798     Document Type: Article

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