Thematic Accuracy Assessment of the NLCD 2016 land cover for the conterminous United States.

ABSTRACT: The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) is an operational land cover monitoring program providing updated land cover and related information for the United States at five-year intervals. NLCD2016 extends temporal coverage to 15 years (2001 - 2016). We collected land cover reference data for the 2011 and 2016 nominal dates to report land cover accuracy for the NLCD2016 database 2011 and 2016 land cover components at Level II and Level I and for Level I 2011 - 2016 land cover change using two definitions of agreement. For both the 2011 and 2016 land cover components, single-date Level II overall accuracies (OA) were 72% (standard error of ± 0.9%) when agreement was defined as match between the map label and primary reference label only and 86% (± 0.7%) when agreement also included the altern

SUBMITTER: Wickham J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11694894 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature