Practical implications of design-based sampling inference for thematic map accuracy assessment

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-45

  Stehman, Stephen V ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

THEMATIC MAPPING;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 0034023040     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00090-5     Document Type: Article

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