Difficult to map regions in 30 m global land cover mapping determined with a common validation dataset

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 4077-4087

  Yu, Le ^a,b   Liu, Xiaoxuan ^a,b   Zhao, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Yu, Chaoqing ^a,b   Gong, Peng ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; RAIN;

ALMOST CONSISTENT; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; LAND COVER MAPPING; LAND-COVER TYPES; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGES; TRAINING SAMPLE;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; LAND COVER; MAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85054886149     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1455238     Document Type: Article

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