Quantifying the uncertainty and error retrievals between field methods for deriving fractional ground cover in arid lands

Francisco Ochoa1, Philip G Brodrick2, Greg S Okin1, Dana Chadwick2, Renato Kerches Braghiere3,4, Frank W Davis5, Regina Eckert2, Kathleen Grant2,6, Aaron Kreisberg5, Yoseline Angel7, Piper Lovegreen8, Andrew Maguire2, Jorge Alejandro Ochoa-Gonzalez9, Natalie Queally10, Ann Raiho7, Dar A Roberts8, Clare M Saiki8, Fabian D Schneider2 and Kate Thompson10, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (8)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (9)U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Geospatial Research Laboratory, Alexandria, VA, United States, (10)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States