Evaluation and prediction of land use/land cover changes in the Andassa watershed, Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 3 Accuracy assessment of the 1985, 2000 and 2015 classified images

Land use/land cover	1985		2000		2015
Land use/land cover	User accuracy	Producer accuracy	User accuracy	Producer accuracy	User accuracy	Producer accuracy
Cultivated land	87.4	89.9	86.8	86.3	89.3	92.6
Forest	86.2	91	87	90.5	96.4	91.5
Shrubland	90.7	85.8	86.4	87.3	92.6	85.3
Grassland	82.9	76.8	82.4	81.3	82.2	80
Built-up area	82.8	88.9	84.1	80.4	81.7	90.7
Over all accuracy (%)	86.9		85.8		88.8
Kappa coefficient	0.83		0.81		0.85