Enhancing alpine glacial lakes detection and mapping using multi-source data and machine learning techniques

Author(s):  
Sonam Wangchuk ◽  
Tobias Bolch

<p>An accurate detection and mapping of glacial lakes in the Alpine regions such as the Himalayas, the Alps and the Andes are challenged by many factors. These factors include 1) a small size of glacial lakes, 2) cloud cover in optical satellite images, 3) cast shadows from mountains and clouds, 4) seasonal snow in satellite images, 5) varying degree of turbidity amongst glacial lakes, and 6) frozen glacial lake surface. In our study, we propose a fully automated approach, that overcomes most of the above mentioned challenges, to detect and map glacial lakes accurately using multi-source data and machine learning techniques such as the random forest classifier algorithm. The multi-source data are from the Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar data (radar backscatter), the Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument data (NDWI), and the SRTM digital elevation model (slope). We use these data as inputs for the rule-based segmentation of potential glacial lakes, where decision rules are implemented from the expert system. The potential glacial lake polygons are then classified either as glacial lakes or non-glacial lakes by the trained and tested random forest classifier algorithm. The performance of the method was assessed in eight test sites located across the Alpine regions (e.g. the Boshula mountain range and Koshi basin in the Himalayas, the Tajiks Pamirs, the Swiss Alps and the Peruvian Andes) of the word. We show that the proposed method performs efficiently irrespective of geographic, geologic, climatic, and glacial lake conditions.</p>

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 584-602
Author(s):  
Lucian Jose Gonçales ◽  
Kleinner Farias ◽  
Lucas Kupssinskü ◽  
Matheus Segalotto

EEG signals are a relevant indicator for measuring aspects related to human factors in Software Engineering. EEG is used in software engineering to train machine learning techniques for a wide range of applications, including classifying task difficulty, and developers’ level of experience. The EEG signal contains noise such as abnormal readings, electrical interference, and eye movements, which are usually not of interest to the analysis, and therefore contribute to the lack of precision of the machine learning techniques. However, research in software engineering has not evidenced the effectiveness when applying these filters on EEG signals. The objective of this work is to analyze the effectiveness of filters on EEG signals in the software engineering context. As literature did not focus on the classification of developers’ code comprehension, this study focuses on the analysis of the effectiveness of applying EEG filters for training a machine learning technique to classify developers' code comprehension. A Random Forest (RF) machine learning technique was trained with filtered EEG signals to classify the developers' code comprehension. This study also trained another random forest classifier with unfiltered EEG data. Both models were trained using 10-fold cross-validation. This work measures the classifiers' effectiveness using the f-measure metric. This work used the t-test, Wilcoxon, and U Mann Whitney to analyze the difference in the effectiveness measures (f-measure) between the classifier trained with filtered EEG and the classifier trained with unfiltered EEG. The tests pointed out that there is a significant difference after applying EEG filters to classify developers' code comprehension with the random forest classifier. The conclusion is that the use of EEG filters significantly improves the effectivity to classify code comprehension using the random forest technique.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 10316-10320

Nowadays, heart disease has become a major disease among the people irrespective of the age. We are seeing this even in children dying due to the heart disease. If we can predict this even before they die, there may be huge chances of surviving. Everybody has various qualities of beat rate (pulse rate) and circulatory strain (blood pressure). We are living in a period of data. Due to the rise in the technology, the amount of data that is generated is increasing daily. Some terabytes of data are being produced and stored. For example, the huge amount of data about the patients is produced in the hospitals such as chest pain, heart rate, blood pressure, pulse rate etc. If we can get this data and apply some machine learning techniques, we can reduce the probability of people dying. In this paper we have done survey using different classification and grouping strategies, for example, KNN, Decision tree classifier, Gaussian Naïve Bayes, Support vector machine, Linear regression, Logistic regression, Random forest classifier, Random forest regression, linear descriptive analysis. We have taken the 14 attributes that are present in the dataset as an input and applying on the dataset which is taken from the UCI repository to develop and accurate model of predicting the heart disease contains colossal (huge) therapeutic (medical) information. In the proposed research, the exhibition of the conclusion model is acquired by using utilizing classification strategies. In this paper proposed an accuracy model to predict whether a person has coronary disease or not. This is implemented by comparing the accuracies of different machine-learning strategies such as KNN, Decision tree classifier, Gaussian Naïve Bayes, SVM, Logistic regression, Random forest classifier, Linear regression, Random forest regression, linear descriptive analysis


Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Issue 01) ◽  
pp. 183-195
Author(s):  
Thingbaijam Lenin ◽  
N. Chandrasekaran

Student’s academic performance is one of the most important parameters for evaluating the standard of any institute. It has become a paramount importance for any institute to identify the student at risk of underperforming or failing or even drop out from the course. Machine Learning techniques may be used to develop a model for predicting student’s performance as early as at the time of admission. The task however is challenging as the educational data required to explore for modelling are usually imbalanced. We explore ensemble machine learning techniques namely bagging algorithm like random forest (rf) and boosting algorithms like adaptive boosting (adaboost), stochastic gradient boosting (gbm), extreme gradient boosting (xgbTree) in an attempt to develop a model for predicting the student’s performance of a private university at Meghalaya using three categories of data namely demographic, prior academic record, personality. The collected data are found to be highly imbalanced and also consists of missing values. We employ k-nearest neighbor (knn) data imputation technique to tackle the missing values. The models are developed on the imputed data with 10 fold cross validation technique and are evaluated using precision, specificity, recall, kappa metrics. As the data are imbalanced, we avoid using accuracy as the metrics of evaluating the model and instead use balanced accuracy and F-score. We compare the ensemble technique with single classifier C4.5. The best result is provided by random forest and adaboost with F-score of 66.67%, balanced accuracy of 75%, and accuracy of 96.94%.


Author(s):  
Ramesh Ponnala ◽  
K. Sai Sowjanya

Prediction of Cardiovascular ailment is an important task inside the vicinity of clinical facts evaluation. Machine learning knowledge of has been proven to be effective in helping in making selections and predicting from the huge amount of facts produced by using the healthcare enterprise. on this paper, we advocate a unique technique that pursuits via finding good sized functions by means of applying ML strategies ensuing in improving the accuracy inside the prediction of heart ailment. The severity of the heart disease is classified primarily based on diverse methods like KNN, choice timber and so on. The prediction version is added with special combos of capabilities and several known classification techniques. We produce a stronger performance level with an accuracy level of a 100% through the prediction version for heart ailment with the Hybrid Random forest area with a linear model (HRFLM).


RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (106) ◽  
pp. 61624-61630 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. S. Hari Narayana Moorthy ◽  
Silvia A. Martins ◽  
Sergio F. Sousa ◽  
Maria J. Ramos ◽  
Pedro A. Fernandes

Classification models to predict the solvation free energies of organic molecules were developed using decision tree, random forest and support vector machine approaches and with MACCS fingerprints, MOE and PaDEL descriptors.


Author(s):  
Nabilah Alias ◽  
Cik Feresa Mohd Foozy ◽  
Sofia Najwa Ramli ◽  
Naqliyah Zainuddin

<p>Nowadays, social media (e.g., YouTube and Facebook) provides connection and interaction between people by posting comments or videos. In fact, comments are a part of contents in a website that can attract spammer to spreading phishing, malware or advertising. Due to existing malicious users that can spread malware or phishing in the comments, this work proposes a technique used for video sharing spam comments feature detection. The first phase of the methodology used in this work is dataset collection. For this experiment, a dataset from UCI Machine Learning repository is used. In the next phase, the development of framework and experimentation. The dataset will be pre-processed using tokenization and lemmatization process. After that, the features to detect spam is selected and the experiments for classification were performed by using six classifiers which are Random Tree, Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, KStar, Decision Table, and Decision Stump. The result shows the highest accuracy is 90.57% and the lowest was 58.86%.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yixuan Ma ◽  
Zhenji Zhang ◽  
Alexander Ihler ◽  
Baoxiang Pan

Boosted by the growing logistics industry and digital transformation, the sharing warehouse market is undergoing a rapid development. Both supply and demand sides in the warehouse rental business are faced with market perturbations brought by unprecedented peer competitions and information transparency. A key question faced by the participants is how to price warehouses in the open market. To understand the pricing mechanism, we built a real world warehouse dataset using data collected from the classified advertisements websites. Based on the dataset, we applied machine learning techniques to relate warehouse price with its relevant features, such as warehouse size, location and nearby real estate price. Four candidate models are used here: Linear Regression, Regression Tree, Random Forest Regression and Gradient Boosting Regression Trees. The case study in the Beijing area shows that warehouse rent is closely related to its location and land price. Models considering multiple factors have better skill in estimating warehouse rent, compared to singlefactor estimation. Additionally, tree models have better performance than the linear model, with the best model (Random Forest) achieving correlation coefficient of 0.57 in the test set. Deeper investigation of feature importance illustrates that distance from the city center plays the most important role in determining warehouse price in Beijing, followed by nearby real estate price and warehouse size.


Analysis of credit scoring is an effective credit risk assessment technique, which is one of the major research fields in the banking sector. Machine learning has a variety of applications in the banking sector and it has been widely used for data analysis. Modern techniques such as machine learning have provided a self-regulating process to analyze the data using classification techniques. The classification method is a supervised learning process in which the computer learns from the input data provided and makes use of this information to classify the new dataset. This research paper presents a comparison of various machine learning techniques used to evaluate the credit risk. A credit transaction that needs to be accepted or rejected is trained and implemented on the dataset using different machine learning algorithms. The techniques are implemented on the German credit dataset taken from UCI repository which has 1000 instances and 21 attributes, depending on which the transactions are either accepted or rejected. This paper compares algorithms such as Support Vector Network, Neural Network, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, Random Forest, and Classification and Regression Trees (CART) algorithm and the results obtained show that Random Forest algorithm was able to predict credit risk with higher accuracy


2021 ◽  
Vol 309 ◽  
pp. 01163
Author(s):  
K. Anuradha ◽  
Deekshitha Erlapally ◽  
G. Karuna ◽  
V. Srilakshmi ◽  
K. Adilakshmi

Solar power is generated using photovoltaic (PV) systems all over the world. Because the output power of PV systems is alternating and highly dependent on environmental circumstances, solar power sources are unpredictable in nature. Irradiance, humidity, PV surface temperature, and wind speed are only a few of these variables. Because of the unpredictability in photovoltaic generating, it’s crucial to plan ahead for solar power generation as in solar power forecasting is required for electric grid. Solar power generation is weather-dependent and unpredictable, this forecast is complex and difficult. The impacts of various environmental conditions on the output of a PV system are discussed. Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have shown great results in time series forecasting and so can be used to anticipate power with weather conditions as model inputs. The use of multiple machine learning, Deep learning and artificial neural network techniques to perform solar power forecasting. Here in this regression models from machine learning techniques like support vector machine regressor, random forest regressor and linear regression model from which random forest regressor beaten the other two regression models with vast accuracy.


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