Estimation of domestic water consumption in China and the United States using nighttime satellite imagery

摘要：

Nighttime remote sensing imagery collected in 2000 and 2003 is exploited to estimate domestic water consumption (DWC) in China and the United States at province/state level. Sum light derived from satellite imagery has a statistically significant correlation with official DWC both in China and the United States. However, the differences of the patterns of settlement and DWC of the two countries lead to the differences of the estimation processes and the precision of estimations. These findings offer potential for compiling and mapping annual DWC in the future.

作者: Naizhuo Zhao Yunsheng Zhao

作者单位: The James and Marilyn Lovell Center, Department of Geography, Texas state University-San Marcos, San The College of Urban and Environmental Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, 13002

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering(第四届IEEE生物信息与生物医学工程国际会议 iCBBE 2010)

会议地点: 成都

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-4

在线出版日期: 2010-06-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）