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Table 1 Accuracy assessments for the 1987, 1995, and 2003 land use/cover maps in the Borana rangelands of southern Ethiopia

From: Conversion of savanna rangelands to bush dominated landscape in Borana, Southern Ethiopia

LULC cover

1987

1995

2003

UA (%)

PC (%)

K

UA (%)

PC (%)

K

UA (%)

PC (%)

K

WL

85.0

81.0

0.80

81.0

89.5

0.79

85.4

83.3

0.82

BL

90.0

81.8

0.89

83.3

69.0

0.89

80.9

82.6

0.76

GL

83.0

83.3

0.75

81.8

96.4

0.76

91.3

62.6

0.89

SGR

75.0

75.0

0.73

80.0

88.8

0.78

42.9

81.8

0.40

BAL

71.0

83.3

0.66

86.7

92.9

0.84

69.2

78.3

0.66

CUT

75.0

75.0

0.73

76.9

91.0

0.75

92.9

92.9

0.91

SET

83.3

83.3

0.82

88.0

50.0

0.81

95.0

54.3

0.94

Over all accuracy (%) 81.8

84.6

81.3

Kappa coefficient (%) 0.77

0.82

77.8

  1. WL woodland, BL bushland, GL grassland, SGR shrubby grassland, BAL bareland, CUT cultivation, ST settlement, UA user accuracy, user’s accuracy represents the probability that a given pixel will appear on the ground as it is classed, PC (producer’s accuracy) producer’s accuracy represents the percentage of a given class that is correctly identified on the map, K kappa coefficient