Accuracy assessment of a remote sensing-based, pan-european forest cover map using multi-country national forest inventory data

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

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-65

  Kempeneers, Pieter ^a   McInerney, Daniel ^b   Sedano, Fernando ^c   Gallego, Javier ^b   Strobl, Peter ^b   Kay, Simon ^b   Korhonen, Kari T ^d   San Miguel Ayanz, Jesús ^b  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forestry; Image classification; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY ASSESSMENTS; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; RELIABLE ASSESSMENT; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84897109009     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2236079     Document Type: Article

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