Selecting and interpreting measures of thematic classification accuracy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-89

  Stehman, Stephen V ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR MATRICES; LAND COVER MAPS; THEMATIC CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY MEASURES;

ERROR ANALYSIS; MAPS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

ERROR MATRIX; IMAGE ACCURACY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAP; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031255580     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00083-7     Document Type: Article

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