期刊论文

Huimin Xu

英文

Land

2073-445X

2023

12

2

321-

10.3390/land12020321

Conceptualization, H.X., S.H. and X.L.; methodology, H.X. and S.H.; software, H.X. and X.L.; data curation, H.X. and S.H.; project administration, H.X.; writing, H.X. and X.L.; funding acquisition, H.X. and S.H.; supervision, S.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This study is supported by Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 2021CFB172, and National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 42171272 and 42271371.

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Research on urban development patterns and urban sprawl in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) has received wide attention. However, existing research has always made use of statistical data, which are not often available. Considering the high availability of satellite data, this study attempts to combine two satellite-acquired indexes, including urban area and night-time light, to evaluate the urban development of the YREB during 2012–2019. The methods included using growth index, rank-size law, and the Markov transition matrix, as well as...