Delineating urban boundaries using Landsat 8 multispectral data and VIIRS Nighttime light data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Xue, Xingyu ^a   Yu, Zhoulu ^a   Zhu, Shaochun ^a   Zheng, Qiming ^a   Weston, Melanie ^a   Wang, Ke ^a   Gan, Muye ^a   Xu, Hongwei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Concentric zone model; Nighttime light; Urban boundary; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; URBAN PLANNING;

BLOOMING EFFECTS; CONCENTRIC ZONES; EDGE DETECTION METHODS; MULTI-SPECTRAL DATA; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN BOUNDARY;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 85047554817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs10050799     Document Type: Article

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