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Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS
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Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

by Shammunul Islam
November 2018
Beginner to intermediate
354 pages
6h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Random forest

With random forest classification, we build a number of decision trees on training samples (sampling with replacement), and for each split on the tree, a random sample of predictors is chosen. Random forests generally perform very well with classifications. But, for our case, as we have only two predictors, we will not see any improvement. In practical cases, if we took more predictors of landslides, such as the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), aspect, and so on, this algorithm would show (for most cases) improved performance.

Similar to what we did with CART, we build the model on the training dataset and test its accuracy on the test dataset. Now, we build a random forest using the randomForest() function of ...

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