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Ground truth

Ground truth is information that is known to be real or true, provided by direct observation and measurement (i.e. empirical evidence) as opposed to information provided by inference. The term ground truth appeared in remote sensing literature as early as 1972, when NASA described it as essential "data about ... materials on the earth's surface" used to…

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Etymology

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Statistics and machine learning

Remote sensing

Geographical information systems

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Ground truth

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples58
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
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related to Geographical information systems · 15
Ground truth → Earth, Geographic, George Washington's, George's, GIS, GNSS, GPS, If, In, In GIS, Mount Rushmore, Specialized, The, They, We
related to Military usage · 7
Ground truth → Iraq, Iraq War, Stars, Stripes, The, The Ground Truth, US
related to Statistics and machine learning · 6
Ground truth → AI, Although, Bayesian, For, Ground, In
related to Usage · 6
Ground truth → Adjective, Example, Noun, The, Verb, We
related to Remote sensing · 5
Ground truth → Examples, Ground, In, More, The
related to Errors of commission · 4
Ground truth → An, Commission Error, Ground, This
related to Etymology · 4
Ground truth → Groundtruth, Henry Ellison's, The Oxford English Dictionary, The Siberian Exile's Tale
is a · 1
Ground truth → ideal expected result

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Ground truthis aideal expected result0.90text
Maximum Likelihood Classificationinstance ofThese decision rules0.80text
Parallelopiped Classificationinstance ofThese decision rules0.80text
and Minimum Distance Classification offer different techniques to classify an imageinstance ofThese decision rules0.80text
GISinstance ofGeographic information systems0.80text
GPSinstance ofGeographic information systems0.80text
and GNSSinstance ofGeographic information systems0.80text
have become so widespread that the terminstance ofGeographic information systems0.80text
GPS are an estimate of a locationinstance ofIf the location coordinates returned by a location method0.80text
then theinstance ofIf the location coordinates returned by a location method0.80text
43.87870instance ofA smart phone might return a set of estimated location coordinates0.80text
Ground truthrelated to Errors of commissionAn0.60section

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