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Assessing the Generalization of Machine Learning-Based Slope Failure Prediction to New Geographic Extents
Content Provider | MDPI |
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Author | Maxwell, Aaron Sharma, Maneesh Kite, J. Donaldson, Kurt Maynard, Shannon Malay, Caleb |
Copyright Year | 2021 |
Description | Slope failure probabilistic models generated using random forest (RF) machine learning (ML), manually interpreted incident points, and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) digital terrain variables are assessed for predicting and generalizing to new geographic extents. Specifically, models for four Major Land Resource Areas (MLRAs) in the state of West Virginia in the United States (US) were created. All region-specific models were then used to predict withheld validation data within all four MLRAs. For all validation datasets, the model trained using data from the same MLRA provided the highest reported overall accuracy (OA), Kappa statistic, F1 Score, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC ROC), and area under the precision-recall curve (AUC PR). However, the model from the same MLRA as the validation dataset did not always provide the highest precision, recall, and/or specificity, suggesting that models extrapolated to new geographic extents tend to either overpredict or underpredict the land area of slope failure occurrence whereas they offer a better balance between omission and commission error within the region in which they were trained. This study highlights the value of developing region-specific inventories, models, and high resolution and detailed digital elevation data, since models may not generalize well to new geographic extents, potentially resulting from spatial heterogeneity in landscape and/or slope failure characteristics. |
Starting Page | 293 |
e-ISSN | 22209964 |
DOI | 10.3390/ijgi10050293 |
Journal | ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information |
Issue Number | 5 |
Volume Number | 10 |
Language | English |
Publisher | MDPI |
Publisher Date | 2021-05-03 |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Isprs International Journal of Geo-information Remote Sensing Slope Failures Landslides Light Detection and Ranging Lidar Digital Terrain Analysis Machine Learning Random Forest Spatial Predictive Modeling Generalization |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Article |