This study analyzes land use dynamics, spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem service value (ESV), and the forces driving growth in the Hangzhou metropolitan area (HMA) in China....
This paper estimates econometric models of the socioeconomic drivers of urban land use change in the Pearl River Delta, China. The panel data used to estimate the models are...
Ting Ma, Chenghu Zhou, Tao Pei, Susan Haynie, Junfu Fan
Urbanization process involving increased population size, spatially extended land cover and intensified economic activity plays a substantial role in anthropogenic environment...
Satellite-observed night-time light in urban areas has been widely used as an indicator for socioeconomic development and light pollution. Up to present, the diurnal dynamics of...
In early 2013, the first global Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) visible
infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS) nighttime light composite data were
released....