Comparison and assessment of coarse resolution land cover maps for Northern Eurasia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3539-3553

  Pflugmacher, Dirk ^a   Krankina, Olga N ^a   Cohen, Warren B ^b   Friedl, Mark A ^c   Sulla Menashe, Damien ^c   Kennedy, Robert E ^a   Nelson, Peder ^a   Loboda, Tatiana V ^d   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^e   Dyukarev, Egor ^f   Elsakov, Vladimir ^g   Kharuk, Viacheslav I ^h  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF MONITORING OF CLIMATIC AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS   (Russian Federation)

^g INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^h SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Eurasia; GLC 2000; Global; GLOBCOVER; Land cover; LCCS; MODIS; Validation

Indexed keywords

EURASIA; GLC-2000; GLOBAL; GLOBCOVER; LAND COVER; LCCS; MODIS; VALIDATION;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION;

LANDFORMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOME; BOREAL FOREST; DATA SET; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MODIS; PIXEL; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TUNDRA; VEGETATION MAPPING; WETLAND;

CLIMATES; ECOLOGY; EURASIA; FORESTRY; LAND USE; PLANTS; RESOLUTION;

CENTRAL ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 81355146692     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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