Assessing urban growth dynamics of major Southeast Asian cities using night-time light data

• Main Authors: Kamarajugedda, Shankar Acharya, Mandapaka, Pradeep Venkata, Lo, Edmond Yat Man
• Other Authors: Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Urban Growth; Brightness Gradient
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84197; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45106
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study analysed urban growth patterns for 15 Southeast Asian cities using remotely sensed night-time light data from1992 to 2012. We extracted three urban categories (countryside, peri-urban, and core-urban) for each city using objectively derived thresholds from the brightness gradient (BG)...