Spatial analysis of remote sensing image classification accuracy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 127, Issue , 2012, Pages 237-246

  Comber, Alexis ^a   Fisher, Peter ^a   Brunsdon, Chris ^b   Khmag, Abdulhakim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Confusion matrix; Fuzzy difference; Geographically Weighted Regression; Portmanteau accuracy; Remote sensing; Spatial variation of accuracy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CONFUSION MATRICES; FUZZY DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; PORTMANTEAU ACCURACY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LANDFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867032950     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.09.005     Document Type: Article

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