Sensitivity of a Land Change Model to Pixel Resolution and Precision of the Independent Variable

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-52

  Chen, Hao ^a   Pontius Jr , Robert Gilmore ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Geomod; Massachusetts; Precision; Scale; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERRORS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ACCURACY; GEOMOD; MASSACHUSETTS; PRECISION; SCALE; SENSITIVITY;

PIXELS;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD; PIXEL; PRECISION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79151483666     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-010-9233-3     Document Type: Article

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