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3.
Habitat
is also used in connection to humankind. In this chapter the term
habitat
refers to plant and animal species excluding human beings.
4. Here
habitat
relates to species, whereas it refers to land in the next sentence.
5. “'Science-quality' means that, in so far as both practical and possible, the errors
inherent in the overall production of [these] maps have been documented” (Estes and
Mooneyhan 1994).
6. Note that the accuracy of the geometric correction is sometimes expressed as root
mean square (RMS) error, which is the standard error (of the difference between the trans-
formed
GCP
s and the original
GCP
s) multiplied by the pixel size.
7. Each stratum has an unaligned systematic sample.
8. Type I errors have been called “consumer's risk” and type II errors “producer's risk” by
Fung and LeDrew (1988) and others. These terms are taken from a branch of statistics
called acceptance sampling. For the sake of consistency and in order to use conventional sta-
tistical terms,
type I
and
type II errors
are used here.
9. Hay (1979) noted that he developed the ideas expounded by Van Genderen and
Lock (1977).
10. The map may be generated from remotely sensed imagery or by traditional carto-
graphic methods such as aerial photograph interpretation.
11. Here
scientific
is used in the sense of scientific method: the recognition and formu-
lation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the for-
mulation and testing of the hypotheses.
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