Assessing the temporal stability of the accuracy of a time series of burned area products

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2050-2068

  Padilla, Marc ^a   Stehman, Stephen V ^b   Litago, Javier ^c   Chuvieco, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Error matrix; Fire disturbance; Global products; Validation

Indexed keywords

FIRES;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; ERROR MATRICES; FIRE DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL PRODUCTS; OMISSION AND COMMISSION ERRORS; TEMPORAL INSTABILITY; VALIDATION;

STABILITY;

EID: 84896920526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032050     Document Type: Article

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