The impact of positional errors on soft classification accuracy assessment: A simulation analysis

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 579-599

  Gu, Jianyu ^a,b   Congalton, Russell G ^b   Pan, Yaozhong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Positional error; Soft classification; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

RADIATION HARDENING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; POSITIONAL ERRORS; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; SOFT CLASSIFICATION; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

PIXELS;

EID: 84920836560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70100579     Document Type: Article

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