Compilation and validation of sar and optical data products for a complete and global map of inland/ocean water tailored to the climate modeling community

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Lamarche, Céline ^a   Santoro, Maurizio ^b   Bontemps, Sophie ^a   d'Andrimont, Raphaël ^a   Radoux, Julien ^a   Giustarini, Laura ^c   Brockmann, Carsten ^d   Wevers, Jan ^d   Defourny, Pierre ^a   Arino, Olivier ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^d Brockmann Consult GmbH   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Climate change initiative; Climate modeling community; Compilation; Complete; Global; Marginal class; Stratified random sampling; Validation; Water

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WATERS; WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACCURACY; COMPILATION; COMPLETE; GLOBAL; MARGINAL CLASS; MODEL COMMUNITIES; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING; VALIDATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85010644464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9010036     Document Type: Article

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