Fig. 8. Province-level comparisons of area estimates of paddy rice fields in
southern China between the MODIS rice algorithm (MODrice) and NLCD-
2000 dataset. Province-level results were analyzed using a fractional areabased
comparison approach, in which we used the fractional area of paddy
rice within individual pixels from the NLCD data for all MODrice pixels and
NLCD20 paddy rice pixels.