Land cover mapping of North and Central America - Global Land Cover 2000

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 116-127

  Latifovic, Rasim ^a   Zhu, Zhi Liang ^b   Cihlar, Josef ^a   Giri, Chandra ^b   Olthof, Ian ^c  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Noetix Research Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Classification; Landcover; Remote sensing; VGT

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SENSORS;

LAND COVER;

VEGETATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPOT; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0842327845     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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