Research Article

Are Feature Agreement Statistics Alone Sufficient to Validate Modelled Flood Extent Quality? A Study on Three Swedish Rivers Using Different Digital Elevation Model Resolutions

Table 2

Different flood verification measures implemented for raster and vector data (revised from Hunter [9]).

Verification measuresBinary classification (raster-based)Areal size (vector-based)Values

Feature agreement statistics:
0 to 1

−1 to 1

−1 to 1

−1 to 1

Hit rate/probability of detection (POD)0 to 1

Probability of false detection (POFD)/false alarm rate0 to 1

False alarm ratio (FAR)0 to 1

BIAS0 to ∞