An integrated view of data quality in Earth observation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1983, 2013, Pages

  Yang, X ^a   Blower, J D ^a   Bastin, L ^b   Lush, V ^b   Zabala, A ^c   Maso J ^d   Cornford, D ^b   Diaz P ^d   Lumsden, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data quality; Earth observation; Environmental informatics; Metadata; Provenance; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; METADATA; OBSERVATORIES; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DATA QUALITY; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATICS; PROVENANCE; UNCERTAINTY;

DATA REDUCTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84874416467     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0072     Document Type: Article

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