A model for the propagation of uncertainty from continuous estimates of tree cover to categorical forest cover and change

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 156, Issue , 2015, Pages 418-425

  Sexton, Joseph O ^a   Noojipady, Praveen ^b   Anand, Anupam ^c   Song, Xiao Peng ^a   McMahon, Sean ^d   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Feng, Min ^a   Channan, Saurabh ^a   Townshend, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b National Wildlife Federation   (United States)

^c Global Environment Facility   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Continuous fields; Forest; Landsat; Propagation; Tree cover; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ERROR DETECTION; MAPPING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PIXELS; SIGNAL DETECTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CHANGE DETECTION; CONTINUOUS FIELDS; FOREST; LANDSAT; TREE COVER; UNCERTAINTY;

FORESTRY;

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST COVER; LANDSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SATELLITES;

EID: 84912017617     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.038     Document Type: Article

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