Thematic accuracy assessment of the 2011 National Land Cover Database (NLCD)

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 191, Issue , 2017, Pages 328-341

  Wickham, James ^a   Stehman, Stephen V ^b   Gass, Leila ^c   Dewitz, Jon A ^c   Sorenson, Daniel G ^c   Granneman, Brian J ^d   Poss, Richard V ^e   Baer, Lori A ^e  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^e DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest disturbance; Land cover change accuracy; MRLC; Stratified sampling; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

MAPPING;

FOREST DISTURBANCES; LAND-COVER CHANGE; MRLC; STRATIFIED SAMPLING; URBANIZATION;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; LAND COVER; MAP; SAMPLING; THEMATIC MAPPING; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85012303076     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.026     Document Type: Article

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