Research Article

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

Table 6

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

Classification results
FrozenUnfrozenTotalSuccess (%)Omission (%)

January 8, 2006

 Ground observations Frozen11112928
Unfrozen0001000
Total11112928

Commission (%)01008Kappa = NA(a)

February 1, 2006

 Ground observations Frozen7188812
Unfrozen1347525
Total84128317

Commission (%)132517%Kappa = 0.63

February 26, 2006

 Ground observations Frozen11112928
Unfrozen0001000
Total11112928

Commission (%)01008Kappa = NA(a)

March 21, 2006

 Ground observations Frozen4266733
Unfrozen1568317
Total57127525

Commission (%)202925Kappa = 0.50

April 14, 2006

 Ground observations Frozen0001000
Unfrozen012121000
Total012121000

Commission (%)000Kappa = NA(a)

May 8, 2006

 Ground observations Frozen0001000
Unfrozen012121000
Total012121000

Commission (%)000Kappa = NA(a)

(a)Because only one class is represented, the Kappa coefficient cannot be calculated (division by zero).