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...
Main Authors: | Giles M. Foody, Doreen S. Boyd |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IEEE
2013-01-01
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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/ |
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