Improving land change detection based on uncertain survey maps using fuzzy sets

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-272

  Leyk, Stefan ^a   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Area estimation; Classification bias; Correction of survey maps; Fuzzy sets; Land cover change analysis; Predictive uncertainty modelling

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; LAND COVER; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; PONTRESINA; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33846571798     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-9021-2     Document Type: Article

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