Analyst variation associated with land cover image classification of Landsat ETM + data for the assessment of coarse spatial resolution regional/global land cover products

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 604-622

  Iiames, John S ^a   Congalton, Russell G ^b   Lunetta, Ross S ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

aggregation; analyst variation; classification accuracy; Landsat

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SATELLITE DATA; SITE SELECTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84890793730     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2013.865399     Document Type: Article

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