Global land cover mapping: A review and uncertainty analysis

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12070-12093

  Congalton, Russell G ^a   Gu, Jianyu ^a,b   Yadav, Kamini ^a   Thenkabail, Prasad ^c   Ozdogan, Mutlu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Classification scheme; Error budget; Global land cover; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920075991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212070     Document Type: Review

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