Urban Built-Up Area Extraction From Log- Transformed NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Composite Data

Accurate information on urban areas at regional and global scales is required for various socioeconomic and environmental applications. The nighttime light (NTL) composite data have proven to be an effective data source for extracting urban areas. Various urban mapping methods have been proposed in the literature to extract urban built-up areas from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System NTL data with a...