Accuracy assessment of NLCD 2006 land cover and impervious surface

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 294-304

  Wickham, James D ^a   Stehman, Stephen V ^b   Gass, Leila ^c   Dewitz, Jon ^d   Fry, Joyce A ^d   Wade, Timothy G ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest loss; Impervious surface accuracy assessment; Land cover change accuracy assessment; MRLC; Stratified sampling; United States; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FOREST LOSS; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; MRLC; STRATIFIED SAMPLING; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

FORESTRY; RAIN;

LANDFORMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATABASE; DIGITAL IMAGE; FOREST COVER; GRASSLAND; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PIXEL; SAMPLING; SHRUBLAND; URBANIZATION;

FORESTRY; LAND USE; RAIN; SAMPLING; USA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871864745     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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