Table 3 Accuracy assessment of flood extent in 25th September 2020 classified using Sentinel-1 imagery versus flood extent derived from PlanetScope data in 22nd Sep 2020.

From: Increased flooded area and exposure in the White Volta river basin in Western Africa, identified from multi-source remote sensing data

Overall accuracy

Kappa

User accuracy

Producer accuracy

0.92

0.84

0.91

0.92

  1. The accuracy of flood extent from MODIS and Landsat images was not performed as only monthly flood extent dataset available while acquiring PlanetScope images for whole September is challenging due to high cloud cover.
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