Mapping regional urban extent using NPP-VIIRS DNB and MODIS NDVI data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Wang, Run ^a   Wan, Bo ^a   Guo, Qinghua ^b   Hu, Maosheng ^a   Zhou, Shunping ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Large scale; MODIS NDVI; NPP VIIRS DNB; One class; Urban mapping

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED IMAGING; MAPPING; ORBITS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); URBAN GROWTH;

LARGE SCALE; MODIS NDVI; NPP-VIIRS DNB; ONE-CLASS; URBAN MAPPING;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 85028384921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9080862     Document Type: Article

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