A critical evaluation of the normalized error matrix in map accuracy assessment

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 743-751

  Stehman, Stephen V ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAPPING; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

MAP ACCURACY; NORMALIZED ERROR MATRIX;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 4143054730     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.70.6.743     Document Type: Review

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