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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 25.
Published in final edited form as: Remote Sens Environ. 2017;191:328–341. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.026

Table 25.

User's and Producer's accuracies (%) and standard errors (in parentheses) for the eastern United States. All values are rounded to the nearest integer. The symbol Δ = change. Agreement is defined as a match between the map labels and either the primary or alternate reference labels.

Theme User's accuracy Producer's accuracy
2001–2011 2006–2011 2001–2006 2001–2011 2006–2011 2001–2006
Water loss 63 (17) 67 (27) 80 (18) 58 (22) 41 (27) 80 (18)
Water gain 60 (16) 67 (19) 25 (22) 49 (18) 99 (1) 12 (11)
Urban gain 78 (3) 68 (4) 77 (4) 32 (5) 20 (6) 39 (7)
Forest loss 80 (2) 76 (3) 81 (3) 54 (4) 59 (5) 36 (4)
Forest gain 75 (4) 73 (4) 73 (6) 26 (3) 23 (3) 23 (3)
Shrub loss 55 (4) 59 (4) 62 (6) 21 (3) 17 (3) 16 (2)
Shrub gain 56 (3) 60 (4) 69 (5) 35 (4) 36 (4) 20 (3)
Grass loss 54 (5) 62 (5) 56 (6) 24 (4) 29 (5) 19 (4)
Grass gain 52 (4) 61 (5) 71 (5) 46 (6) 45 (6) 38 (5)
Ag loss 58 (6) 65 (9) 49 (8) 27 (6) 23 (9) 26 (7)
Ag gain 33 (13) 39 (18) 29 (17) 18 (9) 21 (13) 15 (11)
Water no Δ 88 (3) 89 (3) 91 (3) 83 (4) 82 (4) 84 (4)
Urban no Δ 84 (2) 85 (2) 84 (2) 69 (2) 69 (2) 69 (2)
Forest no Δ 95 (1) 95 (1) 95 (1) 81 (1) 81 (1) 82 (1)
Shrub no Δ 10 (3) 13 (3) 26 (4) 29 (9) 27 (6) 45 (6)
Grass no Δ 32 (5) 32 (4) 32 (5) 68 (8) 66 (7) 66 (8)
Ag no Δ 92 (1) 92 (1) 92 (1) 90 (1) 90 (1) 90 (1)