Calibration-based models for correction of area estimates derived from coarse resolution land-cover data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 225-241

  Moody, Aaron ^a   Woodcock, Curtis E ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COARSE RESOLUTION; CORRECTION; INVERSE ESTIMATOR; LAND COVER; SLOPE ESTIMATOR;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA;

CALIBRATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANIMETERS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CALIBRATION BASED AREA CORRECTION MODELS; INVERSE ESTIMATORS; SCALE SPECIFIC INTERCLASS TRANSITION MATRICES; SCALE SPECIFIC PROPORTION TRANSITION LINES; SLOPE ESTIMATORS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030300908     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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