Multi-scale support vector algorithms for hot spot detection and modelling |
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| Authors: | Alexei Pozdnoukhov Mikhail Kanevski |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Geomatics and Analysis of Risk, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | The algorithmic approach to data modelling has developed rapidly these last years, in particular methods based on data mining
and machine learning have been used in a growing number of applications. These methods follow a data-driven methodology, aiming
at providing the best possible generalization and predictive abilities instead of concentrating on the properties of the data
model. One of the most successful groups of such methods is known as Support Vector algorithms. Following the fruitful developments
in applying Support Vector algorithms to spatial data, this paper introduces a new extension of the traditional support vector
regression (SVR) algorithm. This extension allows for the simultaneous modelling of environmental data at several spatial
scales. The joint influence of environmental processes presenting different patterns at different scales is here learned automatically
from data, providing the optimum mixture of short and large-scale models. The method is adaptive to the spatial scale of the
data. With this advantage, it can provide efficient means to model local anomalies that may typically arise in situations
at an early phase of an environmental emergency. However, the proposed approach still requires some prior knowledge on the
possible existence of such short-scale patterns. This is a possible limitation of the method for its implementation in early
warning systems. The purpose of this paper is to present the multi-scale SVR model and to illustrate its use with an application
to the mapping of Cs137 activity given the measurements taken in the region of Briansk following the Chernobyl accident. |
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| Keywords: | Machine learning Support vector regression Multi-scale environmental modelling Spatial mapping Kernel methods |
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