Census from Heaven: An estimate of the global human population using night-time satellite imagery

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  International Journal of Remote Sensing

• Publication date

  2001-01-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1080/01431160010007015
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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