Using Volunteered Data in Land Cover Map Validation: Mapping West African Forests

Accuracy assessment should be a fundamental part of a programme that maps land cover from remotely sensed imagery but this activity is often constrained by the lack of high quality ground reference data. Here, two sources of volunteered data are used to illustrate the potential of amateur or neogeog...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Giles M. Foody, Doreen S. Boyd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2013-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6493463/