• Forecasting urban expansion based on night lights 

      Stathakis D. (2016)
      Forecasting urban expansion models are a very powerful tool in the hands of urban planners in order to anticipate and mitigate future urbanization pressures. In this paper, a linear regression forecasting urban expansion ...
    • Predicting urban expansion in Moscow based on night lights 

      Stathakis D., Seto K., Savin I. (2017)
      Night-lights obtained by the DMSP/OLS sensor offer a unique opportunity to measure urban expansion in the past two decades. We apply a method to project the existing night-lights time series in the future in order to ...