Incorporating the uncertainty of linguistic-scale reference data to assess accuracy of land-cover maps using fuzzy intervals

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4008-4024

  Sarmento, Pedro ^a,b,c   Fonte, Cidália C ^c,d   Caetano, Mário ^a   Stehman, Stephen V ^e  

^a NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

^b DGT Direção Geral Do Território   (Portugal)

^c INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDFORMS; LINGUISTICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACCURACY MEASURES; CONFUSION MATRICES; CRISP CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY INTERVAL; LAND COVER; LINGUISTIC SCALE; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; PORTUGAL; REFERENCE DATA; REFERENCE DATABASE; THEMATIC ACCURACIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LAND COVER; MAPPING; MATRIX; MERIS; PIXEL;

EID: 84874583581     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.772312     Document Type: Article

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