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Gully erosion susceptibility mapping (GESM) using machine learning methods optimized by the multi-collinearity analysis and K-fold cross-validation4.62 MB
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Gully erosion susceptibility mapping (GESM) using machine learning methods optimized by the multi-collinearity analysis and K-fold cross-validation
Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, Vol.11(1), pp.1653-1678
2020
Abstract
Gully erosion is a severe form of soil erosion that results in a wide range of environmental problems such as, dams' sedimentation, destruction of transportation and energy transmission lines, decreasing and losing farmland productivity, and land degradation. The main objective of this study is to accurately map the areas prone to gully erosion, by developing two machine learning (ML) models, namely artificial neural network (ANN) and random forest (RF) models within 4-fold cross-validation (CV). Moreover, we used the multi-collinearity analysis to select 11 variables among 15 conditioning factors to train the ML models for gully erosion susceptibility mapping (GESM). Lamerd county, Iran, is chosen for a study area because Lamerd county is one of the most affected areas by gully erosion in this country. From 232 gully samples, 75% was used to train the two ML models and the rest of the samples (25%) were used to validate the generated GEMSs using 4-fold CV. The RF model produced a higher accuracy with an accuracy value of 93%. The GEMS generated by the RF model shows that the areas classified as highly vulnerable and very highly vulnerable are 1,869 ha and 5,148 ha, respectively. Results from the two models indicated that the most vulnerable land use/landcover class is bare land because of the low vegetation cover. The outcome of this study can help managers in Lamerd county to mitigate the soil erosion problem and prevent future gully erosion by taking preventive measures.
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- Title
- Gully erosion susceptibility mapping (GESM) using machine learning methods optimized by the multi-collinearity analysis and K-fold cross-validation
- Authors
- Omid Ghorbanzadeh (Author) - University of SalzburgHejar Shahabi (Author) - University of TabrizFahimeh Mirchooli (Author) - Tarbiat Modares UniversityKhalil Valizadeh Kamran (Author) - University of TabrizSamsung Lim (Author) - UNSW AustraliaJagannath Aryal (Author) - University of TasmaniaBen Jarihani (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research ClusterThomas Blaschke (Author) - University of Salzburg
- Publication details
- Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, Vol.11(1), pp.1653-1678
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.1080/19475705.2020.1810138
- ISSN
- 1947-5713; 1947-5705
- Copyright note
- © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99482296202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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