Unveiling 25 years of planetary urbanization with remote sensing: Perspectives from the global human settlement layer

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Melchiorri, Michele ^a   Florczyk, Aneta J ^b   Freire, Sergio ^b   Schiavina, Marcello ^b   Pesaresi, Martino ^b   Kemper, Thomas ^b  

^a Piksel Srl   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

GHSL; Human settlements; Landsat; Open and free data; Planetary urbanization; Population mapping; SDG 11; Urban expansion; Urban population; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING;

GHSL; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; LANDSAT; OPEN AND FREE DATA; PLANETARY URBANIZATION; SDG 11; URBAN EXPANSION; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 85047460630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10050768     Document Type: Article

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