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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: ISPRS J Photogramm Remote Sens. 2020 Apr;162:184–199. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.02.019

Table 5.

National and regional 2011 land cover classification accuracies for version 1 (V1) and version 2 (V2) of the NLCD 2011 land cover product. Cell entries are user’s accuracy (UA) and producer’s accuracy (PA) and their associated (standard errors) expressed as percent of area. Agreement is defined as a match between the map label and either the primary or alternate reference label (see Wickham et al., 2017). The column Δ is V2 – V1 with statistically significant changes shown in bold type. Overall accuracy (OA) is reported at the bottom of the UA panel.

UA National East West



Class V1 V2 Δ V1 V2 Δ V1 V2 Δ

11 92 (2) 95 (2) 2 89 (3) 94 (3) 5 86 (2) 95 (2) 9
12 36 (10) 88 (12) 52 36 (10) 88 (12) 52
21 57 (3) 57 (4) 0 55 (4) 60 (5) 5 61 (4) 52 (6) −9
22 69 (3) 75 (3) 6 70 (4) 75 (4) 5 67 (4) 73 (6) 6
23 79 (3) 76 (4) −3 76 (4) 75 (4) −1 84 (3) 77 (7) −7
24 83 (3) 84 (3) 1 81 (4) 82 (4) 1 87 (4) 87 (4) 0
31 60 (4) 59 (6) −1 43 (7) 29 (9) −14 62 (4) 63 (7) 1
41 84 (4) 89 (1) 5 87 (2) 92 (1) 5 68 (4) 70 (5) 2
42 88 (4) 89 (1) 1 *4 (2) 85 (2) 1 89 (1) 90 (2) 1
43 59 (3) 57 (3) −2 64 (2) 60 (3) −4 33 (6) 31 (6) −2
52 88 (1) 86 (1) −2 28 (3) 43 (5) 15 93 (1) 88 (1) −5
71 81 (1) 82 (2) 1 39 (3) 49 (5) 10 85 (2) 84 (2) −1
81 72 (2) 75 (2) 3 75 (3) 75 (2) 0 65 (4) 72 (5) 7
82 88 (1) 93 (1) 5 86 (2) 92 (1) 6 89 (2) 94 (1) 5
90 70 (3) 69 (3) −1 74 (3) 74 (3) 0 37 (5) 40 (9) 3
95 60 (4) 57 (4) −3 61 (5) 56 (6) −5 58 (5) 58 (5) 0
OA 82 (0.5) 83 (1) 1 76 (0.8) 79 (0.8) 3 86 (0.7) 85 (0.7) −1
PA
Class V1 V2 Δ V1 V2 Δ V1 V2 Δ
11 84 (3) 86 (3) 2 87 (4) 90 (4) 3 81 (6) 81 (6) 0
12 100 (0) 100 (0) 0 100 (0) 100 (0) 0
21 30 (3) 57 (3) 27 54 (1) 52 (4) −2 71 (5) 67 (6) −4
22 56 (4) 59 (4) 3 59 (1) 56 (4) −3 50 (5) 65 (7) 15
23 65 (5) 64 (5) −1 61 (6) 59 (6) −2 73 (6) 72 (9) −1
24 52 (5) 71 (7) −1 75 (7) 74 (7) −1 67 (10) 67 (14) 0
31 81 (6) 64 (7) −17 60 (14) 42 (12) −18 83 (8) 67 (8) −16
41 81 (1) 78 (2) −3 82 (1) 79 (2) −3 70 (5) 73 (5) 3
42 79 (1) 81 (1) 2 62 (2) 68 (2) 6 89 (2) 89 (2) 0
43 65 (4) 80 (3) 15 65 (4) 80 (3) 15 63 (8) 79 (10) 16
52 89 91) 87 (1) −2 48 (5) 42 (5) −6 90 (1) 89 (1) −1
71 87 (1) 85 (2) 2 65 (6) 70 (6) 5 88 (2) 86 (2) −2
81 68 (2) 73 (2) 5 79 (3) 88 (2) 9 48 (3) 42 (4) −6
82 88 (1) 94 (1) 6 86 (2) 93 (1) 7 90 (2) 94 (1) 4
90 86 (2) 90 92) 4 87 (3) 92 (2) 5 72 (8) 78 (8) −2
95 71 (4) 80 (4) 9 76 (6) 82 (5) 6 63 (7) 76 (7) 13