A global record of annual urban dynamics (1992–2013) from nighttime lights

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 219, Issue , 2018, Pages 206-220

  Zhou, Yuyu ^a   Li, Xuecao ^a   Asrar, Ghassem R ^b   Smith, Steven J ^b   Imhoff, Marc ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Global urban dynamics; Nighttime lights; Quantile based approach; Segmentation; Threshold; Urban cluster

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; TIME SERIES;

NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; QUANTILE BASED APPROACH; THRESHOLD; URBAN CLUSTER; URBAN DYNAMICS;

URBAN GROWTH;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; RURAL AREA; SEGMENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBURBAN AREA; SURFACE AREA; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THRESHOLD; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

ASIA;

EID: 85054804942     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.10.015     Document Type: Article

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