The evolution of the urban spatial pattern in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: Based on multi-source remote sensing data

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2018, Pages

  Li, Yang ^a   Shao, Hua ^b   Jiang, Nan ^a   Shi, Ge ^a   Cheng, Xin ^b  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nighttime light; Rank size distribution; Urban development; Urban spatial clusters; Yangtze River Economic Belt

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUBURBANIZATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH;

CHINA; DONGHAI [JIANGSU]; JIANGSU; SHANGHAI; YANGTZE RIVER; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 85051085419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10082733     Document Type: Article

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