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Table 1 Area size of land-cover types and percentage of area size of each land-use and land-cover types being classified correctly using images from three remote sensors.

From: Landscape determinants and remote sensing of anopheline mosquito larval habitats in the western Kenya highlands

Land-cover

Area size (percentage)*

Aerial photos

Landsat TM 7

Ikonos

Farmland

8,733 (64.7)

88.9

84.1

96.8

Forest

1,533 (11.4)

76.9

23.1

92.3

Pasture

1,750 (13.0)

50.0

22.7

72.7

River/streams

136 (1.0)

70.6

63.2

86.4

Road

119 (0.9)

82.1

21.3

88.6

Shrubs

1,117 (8.3)

37.5

0.0

56.3

Swamp

105 (0.8)

33.3

0.0

33.3

Total

13,493 (100)

77.4

60.8

89.2

  1. * Area size is in thousand square metres