Map comparison in GIS

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Aguera, F. , Aguilar, M.A. and Aguilar, F.J. 2006: Detecting greenhouse change from Quickbird imagery on the Mediterranean coast. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 4751—67.

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Chen, P.-Y. , Luzio, M.D. and Arnold, J.G. 2006: Spatial agreement between two land-cover data sets stratified by agricultural eco-regions. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 3223—38.

Comber, A. , Fisher, P. and Wadsworth, R. 2004a: Assessment of a semantic statistical approach to detecting land cover change using inconsistent data sets. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 70, 931—38.

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Csillag, F. , Kabos, S. and Remmel, T.K. 2006: Confidence in coincidence. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 1269—76.

de Leeuw, J. , Jia, H. , Yang, L. , Liu, X. , Schmidt, K. and Skidmore, A.K. 2006: Comparing accuracy assessments to infer superiority of image classification methods. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 223—32.

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Dungan, J.L. 2006: Focusingon feature-based differences in map comparison . Journal of Geographical Systems 8, 131—43.

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Fritz, S. and See, L. 2005: Comparison of land cover maps using fuzzy agreement. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19, 787—807.

Gao, Y. , Mas, J.F. , Maathuis, B.H.P. , Zhang, X.M. and van Dijk, P.M. 2006: Comparison of pixel-based and object-oriented image classification approached — a case study in a coal fire area, Wuda, Inner Mongolia, China. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 4039—55.

Giri, C. , Zhu, Z. and Reed, B. 2005: A comparative analysis of the Global Land Cover 2000 and MODIS land cover data sets. Remote Sensing of Environment 94, 123—32.

Haack, B.N. and Rafter, A. 2006: Urban growth analysis and modelling in the Kathmandu valley , Nepal. Habitat International 30, 1056—65.

Hagen-Zanker, A. 2006: Map comparison methods that simultaneously address overlap and structure. Journal of Geographical Systems 8, 165—85.

Hagen-Zanker, A. , Straatman, B. and Uljee, I. 2005: Further developments of a fuzzy set map comparison approach . International Journal of Geographical Information Science 19, 769—85.

Hargrove, W.W. , Hoffman, F.M. and Hessburg, P.F. 2006: Mapcurves: a quantitative method for comparing categorical maps. Journal of Geographical Systems 8, 187—208.

Ji, L. and Gallo, K. 2006: An agreement coefficient for image comparison. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72, 823—33.

Jimenez-Rodrguez, L.O. , Arzuaga-Cruz, E. and Velez-Reyes, M. 2007: Unsupervised linear feature extraction methods and their effects in the classification of high-dimensional data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 45, 469—83.

Jung, M. , Henkel, K. , Herold, M. and Churkina, G. 2006: Exploiting synergies of global land cover products for carbon cycle modelling. Remote Sensing of Environment 101, 534—53.

Kokaly, R.F. , Rockwell, B.W. , Haire, S.L. , King, T.V.V. 2007: Characterization of post-fire surface cover, soils, and burn severity at the Cerro Grande Fire, New Mexico, using hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment 106, 305—25.

Kuhnert, M. , Voinov, A. and Seppelt, R. 2005: Comparing raster map comparison algorithms for spatial modelling and analysis. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 71, 975—84.

Langford, W.T. , Gergel, S.E. , Dietterich, T.G. and Cohen, W. 2006: Map misclassification can cause large errors in landscape pattern indices: examples from habitat fragmentation. Ecosystems 9, 474—88.

Leyk, S. and Zimmermann, N.E. 2007: Improving land change detection based on certain survey maps using fuzzy sets. Landscape Ecology 22, 257—72.

Liu, W.G. and Wu, E.Y. 2005: Comparison of nonlinear mixture models: subpixel classification . Remote Sensing of Environment 94, 145—54.

Mahiny, A.S. and Turner, B.J. 2007: A comparison of four common atmospheric correction methods . Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 73, 361—68.

McCallum, I. , Obersteiner , Nilsson, S. and Shividenko, A. 2006: A spatial comparison of four satellite derived 1km global land cover datasets . International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 8, 246—55.

Nangendo, G. , Skidmore, A.K. and van Oosten, H. 2007: Mapping East African tropical forests and woodlands — a comparison of classifiers. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 61, 393—404.

Okeke, F. and Karnieli, A. 2006: Methods for fuzzy classification and accuracy assessment of historical aerial photographs for vegetation change analysis. Part I: algorithm development. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 153—76.

Pontius, R.G. and Cheuk, M.L. 2006: A generalized cross-tabulation matrix to compare soft-classified maps at multiple resolutions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 20, 1—30.

Pontius, R.G. and Connors, J. 2006: Expanding the conceptual, mathematical and practical methods for map comparison. In Caetano, M. and Painho, M. , editors, Proceedings of Accuracy 2006, Lisbon:Instituto Geografico Portugues, 64—79.

Pontius, R.G. and Malizia, N.R. 2004: Effect of category aggregation on map comparison. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3234, 251—68.

Pontius, R.G. , Huffaker, D. and Denmand, K. 2004a: Useful techniques of validation for spatially explicit land-change models. Ecological Modelling 179, 445—61.

Pontius, R.G. , Shusas, E. and McEachern, M. 2004b: Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 101, 251—68.

Remmel, T.K. and Csillag, F. 2006: Mutual information spectra for comparing categorical maps . International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 1425—52.

Schroder, B. and Seppelt, R. 2006: Analysis of pattern-process interactions based on landscape models. Overview, general concepts, and methodological issues. Ecological Modelling 199, 505—16.

See, L.M. and Fritz, S. 2006: A method to compare and improve land cover datasets: application to the GLC-2000 and MODIS land cover products. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44, 1740—46.

Southworth, J. , Munroe, D. and Nagendra, H. 2004: Land cover change and landscape fragmentation — comparing the utility of continuous and discrete analyses for a western Honduras region. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 101, 185—205.

Stathakis, D. and Vasilakos, A. 2006: Comparison of computational intelligence based classification techniquesforremotelysensedopticalimage classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44, 2305—18.

Stehman, S.V. 2006: Design, analysis, and inference for studies comparing thematic accuracy of classified remotely sensed data: a special case of map comparison. Journal of Geographical Systems 8, 209—26.

Tottrup, C. , Rasmussen, M.S. , Eklundh, E. and Jonsson, P. 2007: Mapping fractional forest cover across the highlands of mainland Southeast Asia using MODIS data and regression tree modelling. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28, 23—46.

Visser, H. and de Nijs, T. 2006: The map comparison kit. Environmental Modelling and Software 21, 346—58.

Waser, L.T. and Schwarz, M. 2006: Comparison of large-area land cover products with national forest inventories and CORINE land cover in the European Alps. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 8, 196—207.

White, R. 2006: Pattern based map comparisons. Journal of Geographical Systems 8, 145—64.

Wulder, M.A. , Boots, B. , Seeman, D. and White, J.C. 2004: Map comparison using spatial autocorrelation: an example using AVHRR derived land cover of Canada. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 30, 573—92.