Commentary: A cautionary tale regarding use of the National Land Cover Dataset 1992

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 970-978

  Thogmartin, Wayne E ^a,d,e,f   Gallant, Alisa L ^b,g,h,i,j   Knutson, Melinda G ^a,k,l,m   Fox, Timothy J ^a,k,n,o   Suárez, Manuel J ^c,k,m,p,q  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Earth Rsrc Observ Syst (EROS) D   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^h SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^k State Univ New York Environ S ^*  (United States)

^l State Univ New York Environ S   (United States)

^m IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

^o SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^p EROS Data Center and Stationed   (United States)

^q Univ Colorado's Colorado Ctr A   (United States)

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Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Geographic Information System; Land cover; National Land Cover Dataset; NLCD; Observer differences; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; GIS; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES;

EID: 7544244908     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2004)032[0970:CACTRU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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