Remote sensing and GIS accuracy assessment

✍ Scribed by Ross S. Lunetta, John G. Lyon

• Publisher: CRC
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Series: Mapping Science
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The difficulties inherent in assessing the accuracy of large-area spatial data sets, their subsequent analysis by GIS, and their importance to landscape characterization make the development of methods for robust accuracy assessment a critical challenge. In December 2002, the U.S. EPA sponsored a symposium focused on evaluating the scienctific elements relevant to performaning of accuracy assessments for remote sensing derived data sets and GIS data analysis and integrated products. The result is this peer-reviewed text from an international group of scientists representing federal, state and local governments, academia, and non-governmental organizations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front cover......Page 1
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Contents......Page 14
CHAPTER 1. Putting the Map Back in Map Accuracy Assessment......Page 16
CHAPTER 2. Sampling Design for Accuracy Assessment of Large-Area, Land-Cover Maps: Challenges and Future Directions......Page 28
CHAPTER 3. Validation of Global Land-Cover Products by the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites......Page 46
CHAPTER 4. In Situ Estimates of Forest LAI for MODIS Data Validation......Page 56
CHAPTER 5. Light Attenuation Profiling as an Indicator of Structural Changes in Coastal Marshes......Page 74
CHAPTER 6. Paricipatory Reference Data Collection Methods for Accuracy Assessment of Land-Cover Change Maps......Page 90
CHAPTER 7. Thermatic Accuracy Assessment of Regional Scale Land-Cover Data......Page 106
APPENDIX A: MRLC Classifcation Scheme and Class Definitions......Page 117
CHAPTER 8. An Independent Reliability Assessment for the Austrailian Agricultural Land-Cover Change Project 1990/91-1995......Page 120
CHAPTER 9. Assessing the Accuracy of Satellite-Derived Land-Cover Classification Using Historical Aerial Photography, Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles, and Airborne Video Data......Page 130
CHAPTER 10. Using Classification Consistency in Interscene Overlaps Areas to Model Spatial Variations in Land-Cover Accuracy over Large Geographic Regions......Page 148
CHAPTER 11. Geostatistical Mapping of Thematic Classifiation Uncertainty......Page 160
CHAPTER 12. An Error Matrix Approach to Fuzzy Accuracy Assessment: The NIMA Geocover Project......Page 178
APPENDIX A: Classification Rules......Page 187
CHAPTER 13. Mapping Spatial Accuracy and Estimating Landscape Indicators from Thematic Land-Cover Maps Using Fuzzy Set Theory......Page 188
CHAPTER 14. Fuzzy Set and Spatial Analysis Techniques for Evaluating Thematic Accuracy of a Land-Cover Map......Page 204
APPENDIX A: Arizona Gap Analysis Classification System......Page 221
CHAPTER 15. The Effects of Classification Accuracy on Landscape Indices......Page 224
CHAPTER 16. Assessing Uncertainty in Spatial Landscape Metrics Derived from Remote Sensing Data......Page 236
CHAPTER 17. Components of Agreement between Categorical Maps at Multiple Resolutions......Page 248
CHAPTER 18. Accuracy Assessment of Airborne Hyperspectral Data for Mapping Opportunistic Plant Species in Freshwater Coastal Wetlands......Page 268
CHAPTER 19. A Technique for Assessing the Accuracy of Subpixel Impervious Surface Estimates Derived from Landsat TM Imagery......Page 284
CHAPTER 20. Area and Positional Accuracy of DMSP Nighttime Lights Data......Page 296
Index......Page 308
Back cover......Page 320