An Approach of Identifying and Extracting Urban Commercial Areas Using the Nighttime Lights Satellite Imagery

Urban commercial areas can reflect the spatial distribution of business activities. However, the scope of urban commercial areas cannot be easily detected by traditional methods because of difficulties in data collection. Considering the positive correlation between business scale and nighttime ligh...

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Main Authors: Xuzhe Duan, Qingwu Hu, Pengcheng Zhao, Shaohua Wang, Mingyao Ai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/6/1029