Article
Temporal variations of artificial nighttime lights and their implications for urbanization in the conterminous United States, 2013–2017
2019-05-01
Abstract excerpt
Artificial nighttime lights (NTL) generated by human activities offer a unique opportunity to understand urban environments. Although previous studies have widely used NTL images to map urban extent at multiple scales, it remains a challenging task to address how NTL respond exactly to urbanization and thus to map urbanization from NTL. In this study, using monthly Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership/Visible...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 32c2f4e3-f0e2-5821-804a-6b01782f13fe
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.rse.2019.03.008
