A new approach for rescaling land cover data

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 513-526

  Gardner, Robert H ^a   Lookingbill, Todd R ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^b   Ferrari, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Downscaling; Map classification error; Map resolution; Pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DOWNSCALING; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD; NATIONAL PARK; PATCH SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 42149184640     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9213-z     Document Type: Article

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