A global land-cover validation data set, II: Augmenting a stratified sampling design to estimate accuracy by region and land-cover class

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 6975-6993

  Stehman, Stephen V ^a   Olofsson, Pontus ^b   Woodcock, Curtis E ^b   Herold, Martin ^c   Friedl, Mark A ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ESTIMATE ACCURACY; GLOBAL VALIDATION; LAND COVER MAPS; POPULATION DENSITIES; SAMPLING DESIGN; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING; STRATIFIED SAMPLING DESIGN; VALIDATION DATA;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND COVER;

EID: 84863523610     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.695092     Document Type: Article

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