An overview of 21 global and 43 regional land-cover mapping products

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 5309-5335

  Grekousis, George ^a   Mountrakis, Giorgos ^b   Kavouras, Marinos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b 402 Baker Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; FUTURE PROSPECTS; INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION; LAND COVER MAPPING; OVERALL ACCURACIES; PRODUCT GENERATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 84947491839     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2015.1093195     Document Type: Review

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