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The Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) is widely applied to assess the performance of spatial models that produce probability maps of the occurrence of certain events such as the land use / land cover changes, the presence of a species or the likelihood that landslides will occur. In this technical note, the construction of the ROC curve and the calculation of the Area Under the Curve (AUC) index are presented.
See Chap. 4 about validation.
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Mas, J. (2018). Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Analysis. In: Camacho Olmedo, M., Paegelow, M., Mas, JF., Escobar, F. (eds) Geomatic Approaches for Modeling Land Change Scenarios. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60801-3_30
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