The impact of object size on the thematic accuracy of landcover maps

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1029-1037

  Castilla, Guillermo ^a   Hernando, Ana ^b   Zhang, Chunhua ^a   McDermid, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; INVERSE POWER LAW; LANDSCAPE PATTERN ANALYSIS; OBJECT BASED; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SIZE DEPENDENCY; THEMATIC ACCURACIES;

PIXELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAP; PIXEL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 84893924014     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.875630     Document Type: Article

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