Accuracy evaluation and its application of SLEUTH urban growth model

Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 293-296

  Wu, Xiaoqing ^a,b   Hu, Yuanman ^a   He, Hongshi ^a   Bu, Rencang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Landscape metrics; Model accuracy; Multiple resolutions error budget; SLEUTH

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; PIXELS;

LANDSCAPE METRICS; MULTIPLE-RESOLUTIONS ERROR BUDGET; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS;

URBAN PLANNING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROWTH MODELING; MAP GENERALIZATION; PRECISION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIAONING; SHENYANG;

EID: 42949123478     PISSN: 16718860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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