ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF LANDSAT-DERIVED CONTINUOUS FIELDS OF TREE COVER PRODUCTS USING AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES

Knowing the detailed error structure of a land cover map is crucial for area estimation. Facilitated by the opening of the Landsat archive, global land cover mapping at 30-m resolution has become possible in recent years. Two global Landsat-based continuous fields of tree cover maps have been genera...

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Main Authors: X. P. Song, H. Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2015-08-01
Series:The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-7-W4/241/2015/isprsarchives-XL-7-W4-241-2015.pdf