Table 2.

The Pearson correlation coefficients between data resolution and urban area in different world regions

Regions	Central Europe	Rest of South America	Oceania	Brazil	Canada
Coefficients	−0.777∗∗	−0.439	−0.409	−0.441	−0.861∗∗
Regions	China region	Central America	Russia region	Western Europe	Northern Africa
Coefficients	−0.851∗∗	−0.748∗∗	−0.727∗∗	−0.764∗∗	−0.595∗
Regions	Eastern Africa	Western Africa	Indonesia region	India	Middle East
Coefficients	−0.669∗∗	−0.54∗	−0.567∗	−0.734∗∗	−0.706∗∗
Regions	Japan	Central Asia	Korea region	Mexico	Rest of Southern Africa
Coefficients	−0.656∗∗	−0.568∗	−0.611∗	−0.694∗∗	−0.591∗
Regions	Rest of South Asia	Turkey	Ukraine region	The United States	South Africa
Coefficients	−0.677∗∗	−0.698∗∗	−0.684∗∗	−0.695∗∗	−0.733∗∗
Regions	Southeast Asia
Coefficients	−0.738∗∗

Significance levels: ∗∗p = 0.01; ∗p = 0.05.