Assessing consistency of five global land cover data sets in China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8739-8759

  Bai, Yan ^a   Feng, Min ^b   Jiang, Hao ^a,c   Wang, Juanle ^a   Zhu, Yunqiang ^a   Liu, Yingzhen ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d General Staff Information Center of Surveying and Mapping   (China)

Author keywords

Agreement; China; Consistency; Land cover; Per pixel comparison

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CONSISTENCY; LAND COVER; PER-PIXEL COMPARISON;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 84907452174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098739     Document Type: Article

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