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Sensors 2008, 8, 2541-2550 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2008 by MDPI /sensors Full Research Paper Analyzing the Variation of Building Density Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images: the Example of Shanghai City Xian-Zhang Pan *, Qi-Guo Zhao, Jie Chen, Yin Liang and Bo Sun Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: xzpan1@ Received: 10 December 2007 / Accepted: 31 March 2008 / Published: 11 April 2008 Abstract: Building density is an important issue in urban planning and land manag