Delineating Urban Boundaries Using Landsat 8 Multispectral Data and VIIRS Nighttime Light Data

Delineating Urban Boundaries Using Landsat 8 Multispectral Data and VIIRS Nighttime Light Data

Administering an urban boundary (UB) is increasingly important for curbing disorderly urban land expansion. The traditionally manual digitalization is time-consuming, and it is difficult to connect UB in the urban fringe due to the fragmented urban pattern in daytime data. Nighttime light (NTL) data...

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Main Authors: Xingyu Xue, Zhoulu Yu, Shaochun Zhu, Qiming Zheng, Melanie Weston, Ke Wang, Muye Gan, Hongwei Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-05-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
urban boundary
nighttime light
concentric zone model
urban planning
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/5/799

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