Accuracy Assessment

The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 297-314

  Stehman, Stephen V ^a   Foody, Giles M ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84949812908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9780857021052.n21     Document Type: Chapter

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