Accuracy and inaccuracy assessments in land-cover classification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 II, 1999, Pages 491-498

  Nishii, Ryuei ^a   Tanaka, Shojiro ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayes risk; Error matrix; Kappa coefficient; Kullback leibler information

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BAYES RISK; KAPPA STATISTICS; KULLBACK-LEIBLER INFORMATION; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032736309     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739098     Document Type: Article

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