A comparative analysis of the Global Land Cover 2000 and MODIS land cover data sets

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 123-132

  Giri, Chandra ^a   Zhu, Zhiliang ^b   Reed, Bradley ^a  

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

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement and disagreement; Comparative analysis; Global land cover; Per pixel comparison

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; INFRASTRUCTURE; LAND COVERS;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPECTROMETRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DATA SET; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MODIS; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 8844279202     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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