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Variable selection for estimating individual tree height using genetic algorithm and random forest / Evandro Nunes Miranda in Forest ecology and management, vol 504 (January-15 2022)  

Public [article]  inForest ecology and management > vol 504 (January-15 2022) . - n° 119828 Titre : Variable selection for estimating individual tree height using genetic algorithm and random forest Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Evandro Nunes Miranda, Auteur ; Bruno Henrique Groenner Barbosa, Auteur ; Sergio Henrique Godinho Silva, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 119828 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] apprentissage automatique [Termes IGN] Brésil [Termes IGN] classification par algorithme génétique [Termes IGN] classification par forêts d'arbres décisionnels [Termes IGN] diamètre à hauteur de poitrine [Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres [Termes IGN] modélisation de la forêt [Termes IGN] optimisation (mathématiques) [Vedettes matières IGN] Foresterie Résumé : (auteur) Tree height is an important trait in forest science and is highly associated with the site quality from which the trees are measured. However, other factors, such as competition and species interaction, may yield better estimates for individual tree height when taken into account, but these variables have so far been challenging in model fitting. We propose a hybrid approach using genetic algorithms for variables selection and a machine learning algorithm (random forest) for fitting models of individual tree heights. We compare our proposed hybrid method with a mixed-effects model and random forest model using a dataset of 5,608 trees and 189 environmental variables (forest inventory-based variables, soil, topographic, climate, spectral, and geographic) from sites in southeastern Brazil. The tree height models were evaluated using the coefficient of determination, absolute bias, and root means square error (RMSE) based on the validation of dataset performance. The optimal set of variables of the proposed method include the ratio of diameter at breast height to quadratic mean diameter, distance independent competition index, dominant height, the soil silt and boron content. Our findings showed that the proposed hybrid method achieved an accuracy comparable with other methodologies in estimating the total height of the individual trees, and such a modelling approach could have broader applications in forestry and ecological science where a studied response trait has a large number of potential explanatory variables. Numéro de notice : A2022-021 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119828 Date de publication en ligne : 06/11/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119828 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99216 [article]