Spatial patterns of the United States National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) land-cover change thematic accuracy (2001-2011).

ABSTRACT: Research on spatial non-stationarity of land-cover classification accuracy has been ongoing for over two decades with most of the work focusing on single date maps. We extend the understanding of thematic map accuracy spatial patterns by: (1) quantifying spatial patterns of map-reference agreement for class-specific land-cover change rather than class-specific land cover for both omission and commission expressions of map error; (2) reporting goodness-of-fit estimates for the empirical models, which have been lacking in previous assessments, and; (3) using the empirical model results to map the locations of the relative likelihoods of map-reference agreement for specific land-cover change classes. We evaluated 10 map-based explanatory variables in single and multivariable logistic regressi

SUBMITTER: Wickham J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5906816 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature