MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 168-182

  Friedl, Mark A ^a   Sulla Menashe, Damien ^a   Tan, Bin ^b   Schneider, Annemarie ^c   Ramankutty, Navin ^d   Sibley, Adam ^a   Huang, Xiaoman ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Global land cover; MODIS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM REFINEMENT; ANCILLARY DATA; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CROSS-VALIDATION ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DATA SOURCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL LAND COVER; INPUT DATAS; INPUT FEATURES; LAND COVER; LAND COVER MAPS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LAND-COVER TYPES; MODIS; POST PROCESSING; PRIOR PROBABILITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TECHNIQUES USED; TRAINING DATA;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; DECISION TREES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; RADIOMETERS; REFINING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS;

LANDFORMS;

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DATABASE; DECISION ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CHANGE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; MODIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REFINING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70350041108     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.08.016     Document Type: Article

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