Analysis of land cover evolution within the built-up areas of provincial capital cities in northeastern China based on nighttime light data and Landsat data

• Zhiwei Xie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiwei Xie, Yaohui Han

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Transportation Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Hunnan District, Shenyang, China

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• Yaohui Han ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiwei Xie, Yaohui Han

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Liaoning Water Conservancy and Hydropower Survey and Design Research Institute CO., LTD, Heping District, Shenyang, China

  Affiliation School of Transportation Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Hunnan District, Shenyang, China

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• Lishuang Sun ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision

  * E-mail: 645695280@qq.com

  Affiliation School of Transportation Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Hunnan District, Shenyang, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1601-0986

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• Jiwei Ping

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation School of Transportation Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Hunnan District, Shenyang, China

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