Status of land cover classification accuracy assessment

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 185-201

  Foody, Giles M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; LAND CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 0036213079     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00295-4     Document Type: Review

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