Estimating accuracy of land-cover composition from two-stage cluster sampling

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1236-1249

  Stehman, Stephen V ^a   Wickham, James D ^b   Fattorini, Lorenzo ^c   Wade, Timothy D ^b   Baffetta, Federica ^d   Smith, Jonathan H ^e  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Horvitz Thompson estimation; Multiple objectives; Sampling design

Indexed keywords

HORVITZ-THOMPSON ESTIMATION; LAND COVERS; MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS; MEAN DEVIATIONS; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SAMPLE SIZES; SAMPLING DESIGN; SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLINGS; SIMULATION STUDIES; TWO STAGES; TWO-STAGE CLUSTER SAMPLINGS;

DESIGN; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

LANDFORMS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; LAND COVER; NUMERICAL METHOD; SIMULATION;

EID: 64549124716     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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