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Table 3 Contingency table for the number of plots on the Soda Fire burned area, Idaho and Oregon, USA, that had estimated sagebrush cover (%) in four different abundance categories, for estimates made in the field (rows) and National Land Cover Database (NLCD) remotely sensed sagebrush cover (columns) in 2016 and 2018. Total plot numbers are given in the bottom row and last column

From: Detecting shrub recovery in sagebrush steppe: comparing Landsat-derived maps with field data on historical wildfires

  

Estimate from NLCD, remote sensing

 

Year

Field estimate (%)

0%

>1%

>1 to 5%

>5%

Total plots (n)

2016

0

139

446

135

3

723

>0 to 1

90

335

268

3

696

>1 to 5

2

10

13

0

25

>5

1

5

4

0

10

Total plots (n)

232

796

420

6

1454

2018

0

26

94

297

139

556

>0 to 1

23

96

441

210

770

>1 to 5

1

1

15

6

23

>5

0

0

5

4

9

Total plots (n)

50

191

758

359

1358