Can Night-Time Light Data Identify Typologies of Urbanization? A Global Assessment of Successes and Failures

The world is rapidly urbanizing, but there is no single urbanization process. Rather, urban areas in different regions of the world are undergoing myriad types of transformation processes. The purpose of this paper is to examine how well data from DMSP/OLS nighttime lights (NTL) can identify differe...

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Main Authors: Karen C. Seto, Qian Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-07-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/5/7/3476