Research Article

Socioeconomic Drivers of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Western Ethiopia

Table 2

Accuracy assessment for 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020.

LULC classesBare landFarmlandForestSettlementWater bodyTotal userUser’s accuracy (%)

Accuracy assessment in 1990
Bare land400004100
Farmland080008100
Forest02400667.7
Settlement01260967.7
Water body000033100
Total producer41166330
Producer accuracy (%)10072.766.7100100

Accuracy assessment in 2000
Bare land400004100
Farmland07010887.5
Forest007007100
Settlement01160875
Water body10002366.6
Total producer5887230
Producer accuracy (%)8087.587.585.7100

Accuracy assessment in 2010
Bare land400004100
Farmland06100785.7
Forest11601875
Settlement11150862.5
Water body000033100
Total producer5885430
Producer accuracy (%)80757510075

Accuracy assessment in 2020
Bare land30001475
Farmland070007100
Forest01600785.7
Settlement02060875
Water body10003475
Total producer101066430
Producer accuracy (%)757010010075

Overall accuracyFor 1990=83.3For 2000=86.6For 2010=80For 2020=83.3
Overall kappa statistics0.795 (79.5%)0.826 (82.6%)0.746 (74.6%)0.788 (78.8%)

Sources: own summary of Landsat image results analysis via Arc GIS 10.3 (2023). The diagonal bold values show that the areas correctly classified for each year (1990–2020), the bold values of the last two rows for each year (1990–2020) represent total producer and producer accuracy (%), where as the last two columns for each year bold number represent total user and user’s accuracy (%), and finally, the last two rows bold values indicate that to focuses overall accuracy and overall kappa statistics.