Expansion of major urban areas in the US Great Plains from 2000 to 2009 using satellite scatterometer data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 204, Issue , 2018, Pages 524-533

  Nguyen, Lan H ^a   Nghiem, Son V ^b   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense Sampling Method; Impervious surface; LandScan; QuikSCAT; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN; URBAN PLANNING;

IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; LANDSCAN; QUIKSCAT; SAMPLING METHOD; URBANIZATION;

URBAN GROWTH;

LAND COVER; POWER LAW; QUIKSCAT; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SCATTEROMETER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIME SERIES; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZATION;

GREAT PLAINS; HOUSTON; MINNEAPOLIS; MINNESOTA; SAINT PAUL; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85033482253     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.10.004     Document Type: Article

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