Quantifying Urban Sprawl and Its Driving Forces in China

Table 1

The datasets used in the study (by format and source).

Data Type	Year	Format	Data Source
NPP/VIIRS data	2012-2017	Geo Tiff	https://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/viirs/download_dnb_composites.html
LandScan data	2012-2017	Geo Tiff	https://landscan.ornl.gov/landscan-datasets
Administrative boundary data	2012-2017	Shp	https://www.ngcc.cn
Administrative statistical data	2011-2016	Excel	China City Statistical Yearbook
			China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook
			China Land and Resources Almanac