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Analyzing the Uncertainty of Degree Confluence Project for Validating Global Land-Cover Maps Using Reference Data-Based Classification Schemes.
- Source :
- Remote Sensing; Aug2020, Vol. 12 Issue 16, p2589-2589, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Global land-cover products play an important role in assisting the understanding of climate-related changes and the assessment of progress in the implementation of international initiatives for the mitigation of, and adaption to, climate change. However, concerns over the accuracies of land-cover products remain, due to the issue of validation data uncertainty. The volunteer-based Degree Confluence Project (DCP) was created in 1996, and it has been used to provide useful ground-reference information. This study aims to investigate the impact of DCP-based validation data uncertainty and the thematic issues on map accuracies. We built a reference dataset based on the DCP-interpreted dataset and applied a comparison for three existing global land-cover maps and DCP dataset-based probability maps under different classification schemes. The results of the obtained confusion matrices indicate that the uncertainty, including the number of classes and the confusion in mosaic classes, leads to a decrease in map accuracy. This paper proposes an informative classification scheme that uses a matrix structure of unaggregated land-cover and land-use classes, and has the potential to assist in the land-cover interpretation and validation processes. The findings of this study can potentially serve as a guide to select reference data and choose/define appropriate classification schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- THEMATIC maps
UNCERTAINTY
CLASSIFICATION
CLIMATE change
CLIMATE change mitigation
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20724292
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 16
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Remote Sensing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 145244040
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12162589