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Accuracy Assessment Final Matrix

    Observation Points - AAP                                                                            
    1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 12 16 22 23 27 29 31 34 35 36 38 39 40 51 53 54a 54b 55 56 58 59 63 65 74 98 99 100 200 300 Outside Area Total User Acc  
Mapped 1 30   1 4 1 4             4           1           2   3                     1   51 59%  
Point 2   1                               1                                           2 50%  
(Poly) 3     3                                                       1                 4 75%  
  4 3     7                                             1                   1     12 58%  
  6                                                     1       2                 3 0%  
  7 2         27             2           7                                 5 4     47 57%  
  8             5           2   1                   4                             12 42%  
  9           1   11                                   1         2   1             16 69%  
  10               1                                                               1 0%  
  12                                                                               0 0%  
  16                     2                                                         2 100%  
  22                                                                               0 0%  
  23                         2                                   2             4   8 25%  
  27                                                                               0 0%  
  29                             15 4       3                                   2   24 63%  
  31 1                             12                     1                     1   15 80%  
  34                                                                               0 0%  
  35                                   1                                           1 100%  
  36                                     16     2                             3     21 76%  
  38                             7 1       12       1                           1   22 55%  
  39                                             1                                 1 0%  
  40                                     2     5             3             3       13 38%  
  51                                 1           5                                 6 83%  
  53                                               3 1                             4 75%  
  54a 6   1   1   6       1   18   1 1     1 1       4 20 7 4       1   2     1 1 2   79 25%  
  54b               2                               1   3                   1   1   8 38%  
  55 4     2 1     1         7           3         1 6 1 21       3             1   44 48%  
  56                                                       2                       2 100%  
  58     1                               3   1 4             9 2           3       23 39%  
  59                                                                       2       2 0%  
  63                                                             9                 9 100%  
  65                                                               2               2 100%  
  74 1         1   2         2                       1     1         1             9 11%  
  98                               1     1   1   4           1             2   4   14 0%  
  99                                                                               0 0%  
  100                                                           1           8       9 89%  
  200                           1         1               1                   4     7 57%  
  300 1     1                 4   3 7     1     1   1     1   1   2             18   41 44%  
  Outside Area                                                     1                         1 0%  
  Total 48 1 6 14 3 33 11 17 0 0 3 0 34 1 27 26 1 2 36 16 2 12 10 11 34 12 34 3 14 3 22 2 4 0 0 25 13 35 0 515    
  Prod Acc 63% 100% 50% 50% 0% 82% 45% 65% 0% 0% 67% 0% 6% 0% 56% 46% 0% 50% 44% 75% 0% 42% 50% 27% 59% 25% 62% 67% 64% 0% 41% 100% 25% 0% 0% 32% 31% 51% 0%   252  
  Buffered % 83% 100% 83% 64% 66% 100% 64% 88% 0% 0% 67% 0% 7% 0% 66% 65% 100% 100% 75% 88%$ 100% 92% 89% 36% 79% 25% 88% 100% 79% 0% 50% 100% 75% 0% 0% 100% 63% 66%        
                                                                                       
  TNC Production Codes  
  1 - Spruce - fir / feathermoss forest 16 - White cedar - yellow birch forest 34 - White cedar - balsam fir / leatherleaf / black crowberry krummholz 48 - Twig rush wet meadow  
  2 - Balsam fir / Canada yew - devil's club forest 18 - White cedar - black ash swamp 35 - Canada yew mixed shrubland 49 - Midwest pondweed submerged aquatic wetland  
  3 - White pine - aspen - birch forest 19 - White spruce woodland 36 - Speckled alder swamp 50 - Northern water lily aquatic wetland  
  4 - White cedar - boreal conifer mesic forest 22 - Balsam fir / Canada yew woodland 37 - Sweet gale shrub fen 51 - Great Lakes basalt (conglomerate) bedrock lakeshore  
  5 - Black spruce / feathermoss forest 23 - Spruce - fir - aspen forest (open variant) 38 - Poverty grass barrems 52 - Great Lakes basalt / diabase cliff  
  6 - Jack pine - black spruce / feathermoss forest 25 - Black spruce / Labrador tea poor swamp 39 - Great Lakes basalt / diabase cobble - gravel lakeshore 53 - Paper birch / bush honeysuckle - fir forest  
  7 - White cedar - (mixed conifer) / alder swamp 26 - Black ash - mixed hardwood swamp 40 - Bluejoint eastern meadow 54a - Aspen - birch / boreal conifer forest  
  8 - Aspen - birch - red maple forest 27 - Red maple - ash - birch swamp forest 41 - Northern sedge wet meadow 54b - Aspen - birch / sugar maple - mixed hardwoods forest  
  9 - Maple - yellow birch - northern hardwoods forest 28 - Great Lakes boreal talus woodland 42 - Northern poor fen 55 - Spruce - fir aspen forest  
  10 - Red oak - sugar maple forest 29 - Boreal rocky shrubland 44 - Boreal calcareous seepage fen 56 - Spruce - fir and sugar maple - yellow birch mosaic  
  12 - Northern (laurentian) igneous / metamorphic moist cliff scrub 31 - Common juniper rocky krummholz 45 - Great Lakes shoreline bulrush - cattail marsh 58 - Sedge meadow complex  
  13 - Mountain ash - mountain maple forest 32 - Thimbleberry shrubland 46 - Midwest mixed emergent deep marsh 59 - Sedge / sphagnum meadow complex+  
  14 - Aspen - balsam poplar lowland forest 33 - Great Lakes basalt / diabase cobble - gravel lakeshore, shrub zone 47 - Water horsetail - spikerush marsh 60 - White cedar - sweet gale scrub fen  
   
   
  AA Point Adjustment to the Final Mapping Classification Notes  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as White cedar - black ash swamp (18) were grouped with the black ash (white cedar) - mixed hardwoods swamp complex (200) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as White spruce woodland (19) were grouped with the White spruce woodland alliance (300) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Black spruce / Labrador tea poor swamp (25) were grouped with the Wooded peatland complex (100) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Balck ash - mixed hardwood swamp (26) were grouped with the black ash (white cedar) - mixed hardwoods swamp complex (200) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Sweet gale shrub fen (37) were grouped with the Wooded peatland complex (100) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Northern sedge wet meadow (41) were grouped with the Sedge meadow complex (58) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Northern poor fen (42) were grouped with the Sedge / sphagnum meadow complex+ (59) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Boreal calcareous seepage fen (44) were grouped with the Sedge meadow complex (58) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Twig rush wet meadow (48) were grouped with the Sedge meadow complex (58) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Midwest pondweed submerged aquatic wetland (49) were grouped with the water (98) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Northern water lilly aquatic wetland (50) were grouped with the water (98) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as White cedar - sweet gale scrub fen (60) were grouped with the Wooded peatland complex (100) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Spruce - fir basalt bedrock glade (62) were grouped with the White spruce woodland alliance (300) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Leatherleaf - sweet gale shore fen (67) were grouped with the Wooded peatland complex (100) AA category  
  Any correct/incorrect AA points collected and classified as Leatherleaf bog (70) were grouped with the Wooded peatland complex (100) AA category  
  Any AA points collected as Black spruce / feathermoss forest (5) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points collected as Mountain ash - mountain maple forest (13) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points collected as Aspen - balsam poplar lowland forest (14) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points collected as Great Lakes boreal talus woodland (28) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points collected as Thimbleberry shrubland (32) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points collected as Great Lakes basalt / diabase cobble - gravel lakeshore, shrub zone (33) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points (five total) collected as type 43 (unknown class) were thrown-out  
  Any AA points collected as Great Lakes shoreline bulrush - cattail marsh (45) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points collected as Midwest mixed emergent deep marsh (46) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points collected as Water horsetail - spikerush marsh (47) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points collected as Great Lakes basalt / diabase cliff (52) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
  Any AA points collected as Black spruce / alder rich swamp (66) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped  
      Any AA points collected as Timothy - (bluejoint) seminatural meadow (72) were thrown-out as this classification is below the MMU and not mapped                                            

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