Land use/cover spatiotemporal dynamics, driving forces and implications at the Beshillo catchment of the Blue Nile Basin, North Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 5 Classification accuracy assessments of 1986, 2001 and 2017 images using error matrix

Land use/cover type	1986		2001		2017
Land use/cover type	UA (%)	PA (%)	UA (%)	PA (%)	UA (%)	PA (%)
Afro/sub afro alpine vegetation	96	100	85	73	95	100
Bare lands	88	88	71	56	100	83
Farmlands/settlements	96	96	91	96	98	95
Grass lands	100	95	90	86	97	97
Shrub lands	98	96	88	94	93	96
Water courses and beds	100	100	100	100	00	100
Woodlands/plantations	90	100	67	76	91	91
Over all accuracy (%)	97		89		96
Kappa coefficient	0.96		0.78		0.94