A web platform development to perform thematic accuracy assessment of sugarcane mapping in South-Central Brazil

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3201-3214

  Adami, Marcos ^a   Mello, Marcio Pupin ^a   Aguiar, Daniel Alves ^a   Rudorff, Bernardo Friedrich Theodor ^a   de Souza, Arley Ferreira ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Canasat project; Classification; Remote sensing; Stratified random sampling

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AREA ESTIMATION; CANASAT PROJECT; DATA SETS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FLEX-FUEL; PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT; REFERENCE DATA; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING; SUGARCANE CULTIVATION; THEMATIC MAPPING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ETHANOL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING;

CULTIVATION;

EID: 84869237414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4103201     Document Type: Article

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