Post-classification approaches to estimating change in forest area using remotely sensed auxiliary data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 151, Issue , 2014, Pages 149-156

  McRoberts, Ronald E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Model assisted regression estimator; Model based estimator

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY OF CLASSIFICATIONS; BOOTSTRAP; MODEL BASED APPROACH; MODEL-BASED ESTIMATOR; REGRESSION ESTIMATORS; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE; VARIANCE ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

DEFORESTATION; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906943622     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.03.036     Document Type: Article

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