About the Authors

Chaogui Kang

cgkang@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yu Liu

Affiliation Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, Peking University, Beijing, China

Diansheng Guo

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Kun Qin

Affiliations School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CK. Performed the experiments: CK. Analyzed the data: CK YL DG KQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CK. Wrote the paper: CK YL DG KQ.