Comparing the effects of an NLCD-derived dasymetric refinement on estimation accuracies for multiple areal interpolation methods

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 158-178

  Ruther, Matt ^a   Leyk, Stefan ^b   Buttenfield, Barbara P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

areal interpolation; dasymetric mapping; National Land Cover Database; spatial refinement; temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AREAL INTERPOLATION; DATABASE; LAND COVER; MAPPING METHOD; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84926513924     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2015.1018856     Document Type: Article

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