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Assessing Map Accuracy in a Remotely Sensed, Ecoregion-Scale Cover Map

✍ Scribed by Thomas C. Edwards Jr.; Gretchen G. Moisen; D.Richard Cutler


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
418 KB
Volume
63
Category
Article
ISSN
0034-4257

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✦ Synopsis


Landscapeand ecoregion-based conservation efforts constraints facing attempts to assess the accuracy of large-area, remotely sensed cover maps. Β©Elsevier Sci-increasingly use a spatial component to organize data for analysis and interpretation. A challenge particular to re-ence Inc., 1998 motely sensed cover maps generated from these efforts is how best to assess the accuracy of the cover maps, especially when they can exceed 1000 s/km 2 in size. Here we *USGS Biological Resources Division, Utah Cooperative Fish and such as the Great Basin, maps can easily cover thousands


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