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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Geophys Res Atmos. 2017 Jan 29;122(5):3005–3022. doi: 10.1002/2016JD025720

Table 1.

Confusion matrix showing the designation of pixels from each cloud mask associated with the two algorithms compared with information on clouds from CALIPSO lidar taken as the “truth” datasets.

VIIRS MAIAC
Cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear
CALIPSO Cloudy 65079 (TP) 14479 (FN) 1055111 40781
Clear 4129 (FP) 47298 (TN) 235293 605130
Accuracy 86% 86%

The abbreviations in parenthesis note the location of the following test outcomes for both sets of data: True Positive (TP); False Positive (FP); False Negative (FN); and True Negative (TN).