Uncertainty in Remote Sensing and GIS: Fundamentals

Uncertainty in Remote Sensing and GIS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-18

  Atkinson, Peter M ^a   Foody, Giles M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment and cross validation; Accuracy, bias and precision; Best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP); Conditional simulation; Error e(x0) at location x0; Geostatistical non stationary modelling approach; Model based prediction and estimation; Uncertainty in remote sensing and GIS; Variogram and spatial prediction

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY, BIAS AND PRECISION; BEST LINEAR UNBIASED PREDICTIONS; CONDITIONAL SIMULATIONS; CROSS VALIDATION; MODEL-BASED PREDICTION; NONSTATIONARY; REMOTE SENSING AND GIS; SPATIAL PREDICTION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84948760931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470035269.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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