Exploring the potential role of volunteer citizen sensors in land cover map accuracy assessment

Accuracy 2012 - Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 203-208

  Foody, Giles M ^a   Boyd, Doreen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Citizen sensing; Crowd sourcing; Forest; Globcover; Latent class model; Neogeography; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; NATURAL RESOURCES; REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY; CITIZEN SENSING; FOREST; GLOBCOVER; LATENT CLASS MODEL; NEOGEOGRAPHY;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84975748779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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