Evaluating the influencing factors of urbanization in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region over the past 27 years based on VIIRS-DNB and DMSP/OLS nightlight imageries

• Xueping Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xueping Li, Xiaodong Yang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Resources and Environment Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China

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• Xiaodong Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xueping Li, Xiaodong Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Geography & Spatial Information Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China

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• Lu Gong

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gonglu721@163.com

  Affiliations College of Resources and Environment Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China, Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8447-9052

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