Incorporating sub-dominant classes in the accuracy assessment of large-area land cover products: Application to globcover, MODISLC, GLC2000 and CORINE in Spain

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 187-205

  Perez Hoyos, Ana ^a   Garcia Haro, Francisco Javier ^a   Valcarcel, Nuria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO GEOGRÁFICO NACIONAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

CORINE; fuzzy validation; GLC2000; GlobCover; land cover classification; MODISLC; SIOSE

Indexed keywords

CORINE; FUZZY VALIDATION; GLC2000; GLOBCOVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MODISLC; SIOSE;

EARTH SCIENCES;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LAND COVER; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING;

SPAIN;

EID: 84891824334     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2258659     Document Type: Article

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