Optimistic bias in classification accuracy assessment

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1261-1266

  Hammond, T O ^a   Verbyla, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; OPTIMISTIC BIAS; RESTRICTION OF REFERENCE DATA; SPECTRAL VARIATION; TRAINING DATA;

DATA PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; OPTIMISTIC BIAS;

EID: 0029667619     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608949085     Document Type: Article

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