Spatial accuracy assessment and integration of global land cover datasets

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 15804-15821

  Tsendbazar, Nandin Erdene ^a   Bruin, Sytze de ^a   Fritz, Steffen ^b   Herold, Martin ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Data integration; Geostatistics; Global land cover; Reference dataset; Spatial accuracy

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; REMOTE SENSING;

CLASS PROBABILITIES; GEO-STATISTICS; INTEGRATION METHOD; LAND COVER; LAND COVER DATASETS; REFERENCE DATASET; REGRESSION-KRIGING; SPATIAL ACCURACY;

DATA INTEGRATION;

EID: 84989193625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71215804     Document Type: Article

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