Assessing the effectiveness of land resource management practices on erosion and vegetative cover using GIS and remote sensing techniques in Melaka watershed, Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 3 Estimated error matrix based on Table 2 with cell entries expressed as the estimated proportion of area and accuracies

Classes	1	2	3	4	wi	Mapped area (ha)	User’s	Producers
2010
1	0.902	0.028	0.000	0.000	0.93	144.1	0.97	0.99
2	0.000	0.043	0.003	0.000	0.05	7.2	0.93	0.60
3	0.001	0.000	0.009	0.002	0.01	1.9	0.75	0.73
4	0.000	0.001	0.000	0.010	0.01	1.8	0.90	0.87
Total	0.903	0.072	0.013	0.012	1.00	155
2015
1	0.804	0.028	0.000	0.000	0.83	128.9	0.96	0.98
2	0.015	0.114	0.000	0.000	0.13	20.0	0.88	0.80
3	0.000	0.000	0.028	0.004	0.03	4.9	0.87	0.94
4	0.000	0.000	0.002	0.006	0.01	1.2	0.80	0.61
Total	0.819	0.142	0.029	0.010	1.00	155	–	–

1 cropland, 2 vegetation, 3 grassland, 4 settlement. Rows and columns represent map and reference categories respectively