BBAuthors: Diesing, M.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2016)
Maps of land cover generated by Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) approach provide several advantages in relation to the pixel-based methodology, thus leading to significant gains for the accuracy of the final map. The accuracy indices that frequently express such gains are obtained from the traditional pixel-based validation. Then, given the absence of a validation representing the geographical object, new object-based methodologies to assess the accuracy have been developed with the similarity matrix STEP (Shape, Thematic, Edge and Position). In this sense, from the STEP methodology, this study aims to evaluate the thematic and geometric accuracy of land cover mapping ... 
