caa a22 4500 467928096 CHVBK 20180406152935.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10109-006-0024-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10109-006-0024-y Hagen-Zanker Alex Research Institute for Knowledge Systems, P.O. Box 463, 6200 AL, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut Map comparison methods that simultaneously address overlap and structure [Elektronische Daten] [Alex Hagen-Zanker] Methods for map comparison such as the Kappa and Tau statistics have grown popular in applications of remote sensing accuracy assessment. These methods take pairs of raster maps as sets of paired observations and do not consider spatial structure except for cell-by-cell overlap. In contrast, landscape structure metrics such as mean patch size that are commonly used in landscape ecology do express spatial structure, however without addressing cell-by-cell overlap. This paper introduces a number of comparison methods that consider spatial structure and overlap simultaneously. They achieve this by involving the neighbourhood of a cell in the calculation of similarity at its location. For this, the methods make use of a distance weighted moving window. Two test cases demonstrate that the different comparison methods offer a spatial account of varied aspects of map similarity. It is found that the methods can best be used in conjunction with a visual analysis; they then serve to quantify, reject or confirm hypotheses. Springer-Verlag, 2006 Categorical nationallicence Map comparison nationallicence Fuzzy nationallicence Accuracy assessment nationallicence Landscape structure nationallicence Journal of Geographical Systems Springer-Verlag 8/2(2006-07-01), 165-185 1435-5930 8:2<165 2006 8 10109 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-006-0024-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-006-0024-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hagen-Zanker Alex Research Institute for Knowledge Systems, P.O. Box 463, 6200 AL, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Geographical Systems Springer-Verlag 8/2(2006-07-01), 165-185 1435-5930 8:2<165 2006 8 10109 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer