A Zipf’s Law-Based Method for Mapping Urban Areas Using NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data

Urban mapping using DMSP/OLS stable night-time light: a review

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Urban Land Extraction Using VIIRS Nighttime Light Data: An Evaluation of Three Popular Methods

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Global mapping of urban built-up areas of year 2014 by combining MODIS multispectral data with VIIRS nighttime light data

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Updating urban extents with nighttime light imagery by using an object-based thresholding method

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Monitoring Urban Dynamics in the Southeast U.S.A. Using Time-Series DMSP/OLS Nightlight Imagery

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Quantitative Estimation of the Velocity of Urbanization in China Using Nighttime Luminosity Data

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A global map of urban extent from nightlights

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Poverty Evaluation Using NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Composite Data at the County Level in China

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A 30-year (1984–2013) record of annual urban dynamics of Beijing City derived from Landsat data

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Night-time light derived estimation of spatio-temporal characteristics of urbanization dynamics using DMSP/OLS satellite data

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Mapping Urban Areas with Integration of DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light and MODIS Data Using Machine Learning Techniques

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A Normalized Urban Areas Composite Index (NUACI) Based on Combination of DMSP-OLS and MODIS for Mapping Impervious Surface Area

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Object-based spatial cluster analysis of urban landscape pattern using nighttime light satellite images: a case study of China

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Constructing cities, deconstructing scaling laws

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A cluster-based method to map urban area from DMSP/OLS nightlights

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Evaluation of NPP-VIIRS night-time light composite data for extracting built-up urban areas

(2014) Kaifang Shi et al.   Remote Sensing Letters

Evaluating the Ability of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data to Estimate the Gross Domestic Product and the Electric Power Consumption of China at Multiple Scales: A Comparison with DMSP-OLS Data

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Timely and accurate national-scale mapping of urban land in China using Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System nighttime stable light data

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The Origins of Scaling in Cities

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Extracting the dynamics of urban expansion in China using DMSP-OLS nighttime light data from 1992 to 2008

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There is More than a Power Law in Zipf

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Spatial scaling of stable night lights

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Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data

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