An explicit index for assessing the accuracy of cover-class areas

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 907-913

  Shao, Guofan ^a,b   We, Wenchun ^b   Wu, Gang ^c   Zhou, Xinhua ^d   Wu, Jianguo ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ERROR MATRIX;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INDEX METHOD; LAND COVER; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 0041765859     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.69.8.907     Document Type: Article

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