Accuracy assessment of four global land cover datasets in China

Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 167-173

  Wu, Wenbin ^a,b,c   Yang, Peng ^a,b   Zhang, Li ^a,b   Tang, Huajun ^a,b   Zhou, Qingbo ^a,b   Ryosuke, Shibasaki ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Cropland; Data transfer; Database systems; Image processing, global land cover datasets; National land cover dataset 2000(NLCD 2000)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CROPLAND; DATA SETS; LAND COVER; LAND COVER DATASETS;

DATA TRANSFER; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 77049120545     PISSN: 10026819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-6819.2009.12.030     Document Type: Article

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