Comparing Locally Derived and LANDFIRE Geo-Layers in the Great Basin, USA

Fire Ecology

Table 1 BpS confusion matrix for the 6 largest BpS. The percentage of matches as calculated by the diagonal for all BpS (not shown here) was 49 %.

LANDFIRE National Biophysical Setting	Pinyon-juniper woodland	Mixed salt desert scrub	Wyoming big sagebrush (moist and dry)	Low sagebrush	Montane sagebrush steppe	Row total	Producer accuracy
Pinyon-juniper woodland	343 754	610	34 726	16 999	18 451	414 540	82.9 %
Mixed salt desert scrub	11 170	210 657	100 111	12 697	291	334 926	62.9 %
Wyoming big sagebrush (moist and wet)	61 654	34 027	113 492	60 432	29 267	298 872	38.0 %
Low sagebrush	49 428	41 061	89 911	71 419	13 730	265 549	26.9 %
Montane sagebrush steppe	38 059	3 041	16 897	18 880	21 296	98 173	21.7 %
Column total	504 065	289 396	355 137	180 427	83 035	1 412 060
User accuracy	68.2 %	72.8 %	32.0 %	39.6 %	25.6 %	Overall	53.9 %