A methodology for spatial uncertainty analysis of remote sensing and GIS products

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1423-1432

  Wang, Guangxing ^a   Gertner, George Z ^a   Fang, Shoufan ^a   Anderson, Alan B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOPHYSICS; MAPS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CO-SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; GROUND DATA; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 29244480289     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.71.12.1423     Document Type: Article

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