Assessing spatiotemporal characteristics of urbanization dynamics in Southeast Asia using time series of DMSP/OLS nighttime light data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Zhao, Min ^a,b   Cheng, Weiming ^b,c   Zhou, Chenghu ^a,b,c   Li, Manchun ^a   Huang, Kun ^d   Wang, Nan ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture   (China)

Author keywords

Nighttime light; Nighttime lighting types; Southeast Asia; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; LIGHTING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; DMSP/OLS NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; NIGHTTIME LIGHTING TYPES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; URBANIZATION;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 85040674049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10010047     Document Type: Article

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