Research Article

Mapping Agricultural Frozen Soil on the Watershed Scale Using Remote Sensing Data

Table 5

Classification results of six selected RADARSAT-1 SAR images compared with soil temperature measurements at the 12 training/validation study fields, by land use.

Classification results
FrozenUnfrozenTotalSuccess (%)Omission (%)

Tilled fields

Ground observations Frozen173208515
Unfrozen11516946
Total18183689

Commission (%)617Kappa = 0.78

Untilled fields

Ground observations Frozen162188911
Unfrozen11718946
Total17193692

Commission (%)611Kappa = 0.83