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International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 33, 2012 - Issue 22
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A global land-cover validation data set, II: augmenting a stratified sampling design to estimate accuracy by region and land-cover class

Stephen V. Stehman College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pontus Olofsson Department of Geography and Environment,, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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Curtis E. Woodcock Department of Geography and Environment,, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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Martin Herold Department of Environmental Science, Centre for Geoinformation, Wageningen University, 6708 PB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Mark A. Friedl Department of Geography and Environment,, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
Pages 6975-6993 | Received 29 Apr 2011, Accepted 16 Sep 2011, Published online: 18 Jun 2012

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