Research Article
Simulating the Range Expansion of Spartina alterniflora in Ecological Engineering through Constrained Cellular Automata Model and GIS
Table 2
Comparison between the measured and modeled range expansion of S. alterniflora.
| | Pixels | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2013 | 2020 |
| | Measured pixels (number) | — | 19550 | 20718 | 25978 | 32097 | — | | Corresponding area (ha.) | — | 1760 | 1865 | 2338 | 2889 | — |
| | Modeled pixels (number) | 11880 | 15221 | 17690 | 21947 | 24505 | 28746 | | Corresponding area (ha.) | 1069 | 1370 | 1592 | 1975 | 2205 | 2587 |
| | Accuracy (%) | — | 78% | 85% | 84% | 76% | — |
| | Average accuracy (%) | | | 80.75% |
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