Adaptive modelling of spatial diversification of soil classification units

The article presents the results of attempts to use adaptive algorithms for classification tasks different soils units. The area of study was the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, which physiographic and soils parameters in the form of digitized was used in the calculation. The study used algorithms...

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Main Authors: Urbański Krzysztof, Gruszczyński Stanisław
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2016-09-01
Series:Journal of Water and Land Development
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jwld.2016.30.issue-1/jwld-2016-0029/jwld-2016-0029.xml?format=INT
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Summary:The article presents the results of attempts to use adaptive algorithms for classification tasks different soils units. The area of study was the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, which physiographic and soils parameters in the form of digitized was used in the calculation. The study used algorithms, self-organizing map (SOM) of Kohonen, and classifiers: deep neural network, and two types of decision trees: Distributed Random Forest and Gradient Boosting Machine. Especially distributed algorithm Random Forest (algorithm DRF) showed a very high degree of generalization capabilities in modeling complex diversity of soil. The obtained results indicate, that the digitization of topographic and thematic maps give you a fairly good basis for creating useful models of soil classification. However, the results also showed that it cannot be concluded that the best algorithm presented in this research can be regarded as a general principle of system design inference.
ISSN:2083-4535