Research on spatial characteristics of metropolis development using nighttime light data: NTL based spatial characteristics of Beijing.

As the capital and one of the metropolises in China, Beijing has met with a number of serious so-called "urban diseases" in the process of rapid urbanization such as blind expansion of urban areas, explosion of population and the increase of urban heat island effect. To treat these "u...

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Main Authors: Yuli Yang, Mingguo Ma, Xiaobo Zhu, Wei Ge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242663