Table 1 Confusion matrix for the water extraction accuracy evaluation using different methods on September 8th, 2000, September 13th, 2008 and September 17th, 2015.

From: Assessing arid Inland Lake Watershed Area and Vegetation Response to Multiple Temporal Scales of Drought Across the Ebinur Lake Watershed

Date

Method

O.A. (%)

Kappa Coefficient

P.A. (%)

U.A. (%)

Commission (%)

Omission (%)

September 7th, 2000

MLC

97.74

0.95

94.93

95.46

2.54

1.07

NDWI

98.85

0.98

96.37

95.89

1.07

0.76

September 13th, 2008

MLC

98.83

0.97

96.54

97.35

1.45

0.76

NDWI

99.17

0.99

97.31

96.68

0.83

0.46

September 17th, 2015

MLC

99.25

0.99

98.72

98.64

0.62

0.35

NDWI

99.84

0.99

99.53

99.68

0.22

0.17

  1. Note: O.A. means overall accuracy; P.A. means producer′s accuracy; and U.A. means user's accuracy.