Accuracy assessment of a 300 m global land cover map: The GlobCover experience

Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 400-403

  Defourny, P ^a   Schouten, L ^b   Bartalev, S ^c   Bontemps, S ^a   Caccetta, P ^d   De Wit, A J W ^e   Di Bella, C ^f   Gerard B ^g   Giri, C ^h   Gond, V ⁱ   Hazeu, G W ^e   Heinimann, A ^j   Herold, M ^k   Knoops, J ^b   Jaffrain, G ^l   Latifovic, R ^m   Lin, H ⁿ   Mayaux, P ^o   Mucher C A ^e   Nonguierma, A ^p   Stibig, H J ^o   Van Bogaert, E ^a   Vancutsem, C ^a   Bicheron, P ^q   Leroy, M ^q   Arino, O ^r   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Infram BV   (Netherlands)

^c Russian Academy of Science ^*  (Russian Federation)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^g INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

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

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^j Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)   (Switzerland)

^k FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^l ETC LUSI Technical Team   (Spain)

^m CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^o JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^p United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^q CNES   (France)

^r ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Global monitoring; GlobCover; Land cover mapping; MERIS

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL MONITORING; GLOBCOVER; LAND COVER MAPPING; MERIS;

SOILS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84879920123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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