Quantifying errors in discontinuous permafrost plateau change from optical data, Northwest Territories, Canada: 1947-2008

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue , 2010, Pages S211-S223

  Chasmer, L ^a   Hopkinson, C ^b   Quinton, W ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Applied Geomatics Research Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CHANGE DETECTION; CUMULATIVE ERRORS; DISCONTINUOUS PERMAFROST; ERROR BOUND; FIELD DATA; FILM IMAGES; IMAGE COMPARISON; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; LINEAR CORRELATION; LINEAR FEATURE; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NEAR-SURFACE; OPTICAL DATA; OPTICAL IMAGERY; PERMAFROST AREA; RADIOMETRIC NORMALIZATION; SIMPSON; STUDY AREAS; TRACE GAS; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

ERROR ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

PERMAFROST;

EID: 79951744306     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m10-058     Document Type: Article

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