Earth science data records of global forest cover and change: Assessment of accuracy in 1990, 2000, and 2005 epochs

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 184, Issue , 2016, Pages 73-85

  Feng, Min ^a   Sexton, Joseph O ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^a   Anand, Anupam ^a,b   Channan, Saurabh ^a   Song, Xiao Peng ^a   Song, Dan Xia ^a   Kim, Do Hyung ^a   Noojipady, Praveen ^a,c   Townshend, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Global Environment Facility   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Forest; Global; Landsat; Sampling

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; EARTH SCIENCES; ERRORS; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EARTH SCIENCE DATA; FOREST; FOREST COVER CHANGE; GLOBAL; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES; LANDSAT; STRATIFIED SAMPLING DESIGN;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DESIGN METHOD; EARTH SCIENCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; LANDSAT; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 84974628112     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.06.012     Document Type: Article

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