Table 3. Signature separability between land-cover classes used in the supervised classification. Values are calculated as the statistical difference between parts of spectral signatures using Bhattacharrya Distance methods. A value of 0 indicates a complete overlap in the spectral signature between the two classes and a value of 2 indicates complete separation. Habitat type numbers across the top match those on the side.

Scene 1 Separability Scene 2 Separability Scene 3 Separability
Class 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
(1) Non-shrubby lowland habitat
(2) Saturated habitat 1.99 1.99 1.99
(3) Dense shrub lowland habitat 1.99 1.99 1.79 2.00 1.56 2.00
(4) Dry upland tundra habitat 1.99 2.00 1.79 1.99 2.00 1.11 1.95 2.00 1.29