Introduction to special issue on map accuracy

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 301-308

  Stehman, Stephen V ^a   Czaplewski, Raymond L ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; LAND COVER; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0141871971     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025138423071     Document Type: Article

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