A method to compare and improve land cover Datasets: Application to the GLC-2000 and MODIS land cover products

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1740-1746

  See, Linda M ^a   Fritz, Steffen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Image classification; Remote sensing; Uncertainty; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; UNCERTAINTY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 33746335033     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.874750     Document Type: Article

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