Accuracy assessment for soft classification maps

Remote Sensing of Natural Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 57-86

  Gómez, Daniel ^a   Biging, Gregory S ^b   Montero, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; REMOTE SENSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION MAPS; MEASUREMENT DESIGNS; SAMPLING DESIGN; SOFT CLASSIFICATION; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85030858677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b15159     Document Type: Chapter

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