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Figure 6. Mangrove area by Philippine province in 2010. (Color for this figure is available in the online version of this paper.)

Accuracy Assessment
An accuracy assessment was conducted using a stratified
random sampling design to measure the precision of the 2010
land-cover classification. For each land-cover class, 125 test-site
polygons were selected using very high-resolution satellite
imagery (e.g., IKONOS and QuickBird) from Google Earth as
reference data. All reference data used in the 2010 thematic
accuracy assessment were captured ca. 2010. Test-site polygons
were converted to points stratified at 30 m apart to prevent
double sampling of the mapped data. Next, 1500 stratified
points were randomly selected for each class and compared with
classification results of the 2010 thematic map. Finally, a

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