A Detailed and High-Resolution Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis over the Past 16 Years in the Horqin Sandy Land, Inner Mongolia

Table 7

Confusion matrix of the LULC classification for each year in the study area.

Classes	Year 2000		Year 2009		Year 2015
	User’s accuracy	Producer’s accuracy	User’s accuracy	Producer’s accuracy	User’s accuracy	Producer’s accuracy
Bare	0.88	0.61	0.86	0.77	0.88	0.56
Dry land	0.74	0.8	0.88	0.75	0.86	0.57
Dense grass	0.96	0.76	0.88	0.92	0.8	0.83
Forest	0.94	0.86	0.88	0.86	0.8	0.85
Irrigation land	0.94	0.82	0.92	0.81	0.96	0.65
Moderate grass	0.92	0.88	0.92	0.87	0.84	0.84
Other forests	0.74	0.93	0.92	0.92	0.68	0.92
Paddy	0.88	1	0.94	0.96	0.64	1
Rural settlements	0.8	0.89	0.82	0.8	0.76	0.79
Salina	0.84	0.98	0.88	0.96	0.74	0.97
Sandy land	0.82	0.91	0.98	0.88	0.96	0.91
Shrub	0.86	0.88	0.92	0.92	0.86	0.84
Sparse grass	0.92	0.7	0.9	0.87	0.84	0.76
Tidal	0.86	0.93	0.82	0.89	0.82	0.91
Urban built-up area	0.62	1	0.78	1	0.76	1
Water	1	1	0.96	1	1	1
Swampland	0.84	0.93	0.86	0.98	0.78	0.98
Overall accuracy	0.86		0.89		0.82
Kappa coefficient	0.85		0.88		0.81