Research Article

Assessing the MODIS Crop Detection Algorithm for Soybean Crop Area Mapping and Expansion in the Mato Grosso State, Brazil

Table 1

Confusion matrix from the comparison of MCDA and field campaign mapping.

MCDAReference (pixels)
SoybeanNon-soybeanTotal classifiedUser’s accuracy

Soybean1530153100%
Non-soybean4720025076.50%
Reference total200200400
Producer’s accuracy80.97%100%
Overall accuracy88.25%
Kappa Index0.765