Forest Loss and Susceptible Area Prediction at Sefwi Wiawso District (SWD), Ghana

Table 7

Accuracy assessment statistical parameters for LULC classification.

Classified data	Commission error	Omission error	User’s accuracy	Producer’s accuracy
Accuracy assessment statistical parameters for 1984 LULC. Overall accuracy is 69% with a kappa of 0.595
Close forest	0.3014	0.4632	0.6986	0.5368
Open forest	0.3303	0.2551	0.6697	0.7449
Farmland	0.2469	0.1644	0.7531	0.8356
Grassland	0.3393	0.3019	0.6607	0.6981
Bareland	0.4194	0.4194	0.5806	0.5806
Accuracy assessment statistical parameters for 1990 LULC. Overall accuracy is 64% with a kappa of 0.540
Close forest	0.2740	0.4854	0.7260	0.5146
Open forest	0.3670	0.2737	0.6330	0.7263
Farmland	0.3827	0.3333	0.6173	0.6667
Grassland	0.4286	0.2000	0.5714	0.8000
Bareland	0.3226	0.4324	0.6774	0.5676
Accuracy assessment statistical parameters for 1995 LULC. Overall accuracy is 61% with a kappa of 0.489
Close forest	0.3288	0.4432	0.6712	0.5568
Open forest	0.2385	0.3140	0.7615	0.6860
Farmland	0.4691	0.3385	0.5309	0.6615
Grassland	0.6607	0.3667	0.3393	0.6333
Bareland	0.4194	0.6087	0.5806	0.3913
Accuracy assessment statistical parameters for 1996 LULC. Overall accuracy is 65% with a kappa of 0.539
Close forest	0.3151	0.4792	0.6849	0.5208
Open forest	0.2569	0.3415	0.7431	0.6585
Farmland	0.3951	0.2097	0.6049	0.7903
Grassland	0.5536	0.1935	0.4464	0.8065
Bareland	0.3226	0.4474	0.6774	0.5526
Accuracy assessment statistical parameters for 2000 LULC. Overall accuracy is 69% with a kappa of 0.602
Close forest	0.1233	0.2809	0.8767	0.7191
Open forest	0.1835	0.3101	0.8165	0.6899
Farmland	0.4938	0.3051	0.5062	0.6949
Grassland	0.5536	0.2647	0.4464	0.7353
Bareland	0.2258	0.3846	0.7742	0.6154
Accuracy assessment statistical parameters for 2003 LULC. Overall accuracy is 73% with a kappa of 0.656
Close forest	0.2466	0.3889	0.7534	0.6111
Open forest	0.2202	0.1905	0.7798	0.8095
Farmland	0.2222	0.1600	0.7778	0.8400
Grassland	0.3750	0.3000	0.6250	0.7000
Bareland	0.3871	0.3667	0.6129	0.6333
Accuracy assessment statistical parameters for 2010 LULC. Overall accuracy is 61% with a kappa of 0.499
Close forest	0.2603	0.4066	0.7397	0.5934
Open forest	0.2844	0.3217	0.7156	0.6783
Farmland	0.5062	0.2857	0.4938	0.7143
Grassland	0.6250	0.5000	0.3750	0.5000
Bareland	0.3226	0.5435	0.6774	0.4565