Assessing the accuracy of forest cover map for 1990, 2000 and 2010 at national scale in gabon

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

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1346-1356

  Fichet, Louis Vincent ^a   Sannier, Christophe ^a   Makaga, Etienne Massard K ^b   Seyler, Frederique ^c  

^a SIRS Systemes d'Information a Reference Spatiale   (France)

^b Agence Gabonaise des Etudes et Observations Spatiales (AGEOS)   (Gabon)

^c IRD   (France)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Africa; deforestation; forest cover; Gabon; LANDSAT

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AFRICA; FOREST COVER; GABON; LANDSAT;

DEFORESTATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; LANDSAT; MAPPING;

ACCURACY; AFRICA; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

GABON;

EID: 84899981901     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2271845     Document Type: Article

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