Comparing statistical and semantic approaches for identifying change from land cover datasets

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-55

  Comber, Alexis ^a   Fisher, Peter ^a   Wadsworth, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expert; Integration; Land cover; Metadata

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

DATATYPES; EXPERT; GENERIC METHOD; LAND COVER; LAND COVER DATASETS; LAND COVER MAPPING; POLICY INITIATIVES; SEMANTIC APPROACH; SPATIAL DATA; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

METADATA;

LAND COVER; SPATIAL DATA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND USE; POLICY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 21644451716     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.02.009     Document Type: Article

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