Diagnostic tools for nearest neighbors techniques when used with satellite imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 489-499

  McRoberts, Ronald E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Extrapolations; Forest inventory; Homoscedasticity; Influential observations; Outliers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; EXTRAPOLATION;

BIAS; FOREST INVENTORY; HOMOSCEDASTICITY; INFLUENTIAL OBSERVATIONS; OUTLIERS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

FOREST INVENTORY; LANDSAT; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; OUTLIER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 58249142084     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.06.015     Document Type: Article

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