Forestry surveys for West Africa suggest clearance of around 56% of the forest zone; estimated losses for Ivory Coast , Ghana , and Liberia range between 64% and 70%. Estimates of total land conversion range between 88 million ha, from the digitized land use map (Figure 4) to 122.8 ...
In other words, the volume of validation data over West Africa, especially in northern Mali, northern Niger, Liberia, and across the Gulf of Guinea is limited. Thereof, low values of RMSE could be misleading. Thirdly, statistical indicators used in the validation phase such as RMSE, are scale...