Characterizing the spatial and temporal availability of very high resolution satellite imagery in Google Earth and Microsoft Bing Maps as a source of reference data

Land

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Lesiv, Myroslava ^a   See, Linda ^a   Bayas, Juan Carlos Laso ^a   Sturn, Tobias ^a   Schepaschenko, Dmitry ^a   Karner, Mathias ^a   Moorthy, Inian ^a   McCallum, Ian ^a   Fritz, Steffen ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Calibration data; Land monitoring; Validation data; Very high resolution imagery

Indexed keywords

EID: 85056865924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land7040118     Document Type: Article

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