A new urban index for expressing inner-city patterns based on MODIS LST and EVI regulated DMSP/OLS NTL

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Liu, Yangxiaoyue ^a,b   Yang, Yaping ^a,c   Jing, Wenlong ^d   Yao, Ling ^a,c   Yue, Xiafang ^a,c   Zhao, Xiaodan ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

DMSP OLS NTL; Land surface temperature (LST); LERNCI; NPP VIIRS DNB; Urban pattern; Vegetation coverage; WorldPop

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXPANSION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED IMAGING; PIXELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOMETERS; REGIONAL PLANNING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

DMSP-OLS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LERNCI; NPP/VIIRS DNB; URBAN PATTERNS; VEGETATION COVERAGE; WORLDPOP;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85028314762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9080777     Document Type: Article

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