Land cover change: a method for assessing the reliability of land cover changes measured from remotely-sensed data

Author

Aspinall, Richard J. ; Hill, Michael J.

Author_Institution

Macaulay Land Use Res. Inst., Aberdeen, UK

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

3-8 Aug 1997

Firstpage

269

Abstract

A method for assessing the reliability of land cover changes measured using data from different dates is presented and tested using a study area in the Cairngorm mountains, Scotland. Two sources of uncertainty are recognised in the change detection process: a) slivers resulting from misalignment of boundaries of land cover polygons and b) false positive changes associated with misclassification error in production of the land cover maps

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; image classification; image sequences; remote sensing; Cairngorm mountains; Scotland; UK; United Kingdom; false positive; geophysical measurement technique; image classification; image processing; image sequence; land cover change detection; land cover polygon boundary; land surface; misalignment; misclassification error; reliability; remote sensing; sliver; terrain mapping; uncertainty; Area measurement; Australia; Information resources; Production; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Shape; Testing; Time measurement; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1997. IGARSS '97. Remote Sensing - A Scientific Vision for Sustainable Development., 1997 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3836-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1997.615859

Filename

615859