Validation of a large area land cover product using purpose-acquired airborne video

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 480-491

  Wulder, M A ^a   White, J C ^a   Magnussen, S ^a   McDonald, S ^a  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airborne video; Forest; Land cover; Landsat; Large area land cover; Mapping; Monitoring; Sample design; Validation

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; FORESTRY; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE VIDEO; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LARGE AREA LAND COVER; VALIDATION;

LAND USE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND COVER; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VIDEOGRAPHY;

CONTRACTS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

EID: 33846592806     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.09.012     Document Type: Article

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