Beware of per-pixel characterization of land cover

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 839-843

  Townshend, J R G ^a   Huang, C ^a   Kalluri, S N V ^a   Defries, R S ^a   Liang, S ^a   Yang, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; PIXEL;

EID: 0034629554     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311600210641     Document Type: Article

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