ERROR AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF LAND COVER MAPS by ...

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by  Pedro Sarmento

ERROR AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE ACCURACY ASSESSMENT
OF LAND COVER MAPS

by

Pedro Alexandre Reis Sarmento

Dissertation submitted to the NOVA Information Management School in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of
Doutor em Gestão de Informação – Sistemas de Informação Geográfica
(Doctor of Philosophy in Information Management – Geographic
Information Systems)

NOVA Information Management School

2015

ERROR AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE ACCURACY ASSESSMENT
OF LAND COVER MAPS

by

Pedro Alexandre Reis Sarmento

Dissertation supervised by

Professor Mário Caetano
Professor Cidália Fonte
Professor Stephen V. Stehman

NOVA Information Management School

2015

DEDICATION
To my parents and grandmother.

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AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To my parents for their unconditional support.
To Xana for all their love, care, motivation and patience during the period of my PhD
studies and elaboration of this dissertation.
To Professor Mário Caetano for their friendship, ideas and lines of investigation that
resulted in the work presented in this dissertation and for being my advisor in my
graduation, master degree and PhD.
To Professor Cidália Fonte for all the ideas, support in the work developed during this
PhD and also for their hospitality when I worked with her at University of Coimbra.
To Professor Stephen Stehman despite the distance, for all their guidance, advices and
reviews, in the submission of this dissertation and the papers elaborated during this
PhD.
To Artur Gil and my ex-colleagues of the extinguished Remote Sensing Unit of the
Portuguese Geographic Institute, namely Hugo Carrão, António Nunes, António Araújo,
Vasco Nunes, Maria da Conceição Pereira and Joel Dinis for all the friendship,
motivation and work, that also contributed to this dissertation.
To my professors of the NOVA Information Management School, by everything I
learned with them in classes.
To the directors that passed by the direction of the extinguished Portuguese Geographic
Institute (now days Direção-Geral do Território) for providing me, all the conditions to
develop my PhD studies.

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The research presented in this dissertation was funded and/or partially supported by the
following institutions:
• NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS)
• Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) – SFRH/BD/61900/2009;
• Direção-Geral do Território (DGT);
• Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (FCTUC);
• Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra (INESC
Coimbra).

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