3.3. Change in agriculture at La Costa de Hermosillo
3.3.1. Accuracy assessment: northern and southern agricultural
developments
Using the thematic maps, we created new maps by grouping
together all classes except active agriculture and fallow fields,
which result in three total classes, to conduct accuracy assessments.
Our results yielded similar accuracies for the northern and southern
agricultural developments (KAPPA statistic ranging from 0.8 to
0.9 for all years) when compared with the results obtained for the
previous landscape classifications for the entire La Costa de Hermosillo
area. In all our land-cover maps, the class denominated
“Other” was an aggregation of desert shrubland, vegetation and
barren soil classes.