Developing and applying a multi-purpose land cover validation dataset for Africa

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 219, Issue , 2018, Pages 298-309

  Tsendbazar, N E ^a   Herold, M ^a   de Bruin, S ^a   Lesiv, M ^b   Fritz, S ^b   Van De Kerchove, R ^c   Buchhorn, M ^c   Duerauer, M ^b   Szantoi, Z ^d,e   Pekel, J F ^d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Discrete and fractional land cover; Land cover validation; Map comparison and user specific accuracies; Multi purpose assessments; Validation data

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; LAND COVER; LAND COVER INFORMATIONS; MAP COMPARISON; MULTI-PURPOSE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; VALIDATION DATA;

PIXELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; LAND COVER; MODEL VALIDATION; PIXEL; SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AFRICA;

EID: 85055152361     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.10.025     Document Type: Article

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