Paper Info
Title
Global mapping of urban built-up areas of year 2014 by combining MODIS multispectral data with VIIRS nighttime light data.
Abstract
An improved methodology for the extraction and mapping of urban built-up areas at a global scale is presented in this study. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( MODIS)-based multispectral data were combined with the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite ( VIIRS)-based nighttime light ( NTL) data for robust extraction and mapping of urban built-up areas. The MODIS-based newly proposed Urban Built-up Index ( UBI) was combined with NTL data, and the resulting Enhanced UBI ( EUBI) was used as a single master image for global extraction of urban built-up areas. Due to higher variation of the EUBI with respect to geographical regions, a region-specific threshold approach was used to extract urban built-up areas. This research provided 500-m-resolution global urban built-up map of year 2014. The resulted map was compared with three existing moderate-resolution global maps and one high-resolution map in the United States. The comparative analysis demonstrated finer details of the urban built-up cover estimated by the resultant map.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1080/17538947.2016.1168879
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL EARTH
Keywords
Field
DocType
Urban built-up areas,VIIRS,MODIS,nighttime light,Urban Built-up Index,global mapping
Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer,Remote sensing,Visible infrared,Geography,Cartography,Radiometer,Multispectral data
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9.0
10.0
1753-8947
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.97
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ram C. Sharma1211.48
Ryutaro Tateishi27813.21
Keitarou Hara3315.55
Saeid Gharechelou4211.48
Kotaro Iizuka5171.31