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Evaluation of Luojia 1–01 Nighttime Light Imagery for Built-Up Urban Area Extraction: A Case Study of 16 Cities in China |
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On June 2, 2018, the Luojia 1-01 (LJ1-01) nighttime light satellite was launched from China with a spatial resolution of 130 m at nadir, which is a significant improvement over the resolutions of previous nighttime light satellites. However, few studies have focused on the applications of LJ1-01 imagery. This letter aimed to evaluate the potential of utilizing LJ1-01 data to extract built-up urban areas in comparison with Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) day-night band (DNB) data by conducting a case study of 16 cities involved in the Belt and Road Initiative in China. The built-up urban areas of the 16 cities were extracted by thresholding segmentation in reference to administrative statistical data, and 30-m-resolution artificial impervious data were adopted as the benchmark (ground truth). Qualitative and quantitative assessments were implemented for an evaluation, revealing that the built-up urban areas extracted by LJ1-01 data outperformed the areas extracted by VIIRS DNB data. We argue that these improvements originate from the superior spatial resolution and image quality of LJ1-01 over its predecessors. The LJ1-01 data presented excellent suitability for the extraction of built-up urban areas at the city scale, and hence, these data may be further applied to other related investigations. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1109/LGRS.2019.2955496 | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Built-up urban area extraction,Luojia 1–01 (LJ1-01),Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) day–night band (DNB) | Journal | 17 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
10 | 1545-598X | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Weixin Zhai | 1 | 2 | 1.80 |
Bing Han | 2 | 36 | 11.27 |
Chengqi Cheng | 3 | 19 | 18.71 |