Urban Land Use in HRS
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Nighttime satellite images reveal city lights
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worldwide composite image produced by NOAA (Elvidge 1998)
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good correlation of lights with population in USA
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attempt to project China's population from imagery produces an estimate
of 1.6 billion (Sutton 1999)
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HRS spatial differentiation
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CPZ and LUH provide clues to improve projections
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moving from core to periphery, observe a systematic decline in percentage
of urbanization
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