Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) Collection 1.1 Annual Land Cover and Land Cover Change Validation Tables (1985–2018) for the Conterminous United States
Dates
Start Date
1985
End Date
2018
Publication Date
2021-04-22
Citation
Pengra, B.W., Stehman, S.V., Horton, J.A., and Wellington, D.F., 2021, Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) Collection 1.1 Annual Land Cover and Land Cover Change Validation Tables (1985–2018) for the Conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MLPFOH.
Summary
A validation assessment of Land Cover Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection Collection 1.1 annual land cover products (1985–2019) for the Conterminous United States was conducted with an independently collected reference data set. Reference data land cover attributes were assigned by trained interpreters for each year of the time series (1984–2018) to a reference sample of 24,971 randomly-selected Landsat resolution (30m x 30m) pixels. The interpreted land cover attributes were crosswalked to the LCMAP annual land cover classes: Developed, Cropland, Grass/Shrub, Tree Cover, Wetland, Water, Snow/Ice and Barren. Validation analysis directly compared reference labels with annual LCMAP land cover map attributes by cross tabulation. The [...]
Summary
A validation assessment of Land Cover Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection Collection 1.1 annual land cover products (1985–2019) for the Conterminous United States was conducted with an independently collected reference data set. Reference data land cover attributes were assigned by trained interpreters for each year of the time series (1984–2018) to a reference sample of 24,971 randomly-selected Landsat resolution (30m x 30m) pixels. The interpreted land cover attributes were crosswalked to the LCMAP annual land cover classes: Developed, Cropland, Grass/Shrub, Tree Cover, Wetland, Water, Snow/Ice and Barren.
Validation analysis directly compared reference labels with annual LCMAP land cover map attributes by cross tabulation. The results of that assessment are reported here as confusion matrices for land cover agreement and land cover change agreement. Overall CONUS land cover agreement across all years was found to be 82.6%. Annual and regional accuracies are also reported.
The data and related accuracy analysis was conducted to provide a quantitative assessment of the accuracy of the LCMAP Collection 1.1 Science Products.
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LCMAP reference sample distribution across CONUS over a simulated background
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Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP)