Effects of patch characteristics and within patch heterogeneity on the accuracy of urban land cover estimates from visual interpretation

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1291-1305

  Zhou, Weiqi ^a   Cadenasso, M L ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; HERCULES; Land cover composition and configuration; Object based classification; Pattern analysis; Spatial heterogeneity; Urban systems; Visual interpretation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE; MAPPING METHOD; PATCH DYNAMICS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867662375     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9780-x     Document Type: Article

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