What you should know about land-cover data

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 796-805

  Gallant, Alisa L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality; Data resolution; Digital map; Land cover data; Map errors; Map purpose; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIGITAL MAP; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 77749252332     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-509     Document Type: Article

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