New coefficient for accuracy assessment of land-cover classification based on Kullback-Leibler information

Ryuei Nishii; Shojiro Tanaka

doi:10.1117/12.262875

17 December 1996 New coefficient for accuracy assessment of land-cover classification based on Kullback-Leibler information

Ryuei Nishii, Shojiro Tanaka

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Proceedings Volume 2955, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing III; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.262875
Event: Satellite Remote Sensing III, 1996, Taormina, Italy

Abstract

Several measures assessing the accuracy of land-cover classification are available, e.g., overall and class- averaged accuracies. Also kappa statistic is widely used for this purpose. In this article, we discuss the properties of these criteria, and point out that the kappa statistic has an unfavorable feature. We propose alternative coefficients based on Kullback-Leibler information. Further, significance tests for the difference between the coefficients derived by classification results are established.

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Ryuei Nishii and Shojiro Tanaka "New coefficient for accuracy assessment of land-cover classification based on Kullback-Leibler information", Proc. SPIE 2955, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing III, (17 December 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.262875

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