You know what land cover is but does anyone else?... An investigation into semantic and ontological confusion

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 223-228

  Comber, A ^a,c   Fisher, P ^a   Wadsworth, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION USE; LAND USE; METADATA; SEMANTICS;

DATA QUALITY; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; ONTOLOGY;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA QUALITY; LAND COVER; PERCEPTION; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 13344276553     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143116042000274032     Document Type: Article

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