Validating land cover maps with Degree Confluence Project information

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Iwao, Koki ^a   Nishida, Kenlo ^b   Kinoshita, Tsuguki ^a   Yamagata, Yoshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; LANDFORMS; PHOTOINTERPRETATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DEGREE CONFLUENCES; LAND COVER MAPS;

MAPS;

CONFLUENCE; GPS; LAND COVER; MAP; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EURASIA;

EID: 34548622819     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027768     Document Type: Article

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