Slope Failure Prediction Using Random Forest Machine Learning and LiDAR in an Eroded Folded Mountain Belt release_7inwosbrbfdmnn524dnxnlnl7u

by Maxwell, Sharma, Kite, Donaldson, Thompson, Bell, Maynard

Published in Remote Sensing by MDPI AG.

2020   Volume 12, p486

Abstract

The probabilistic mapping of landslide occurrence at a high spatial resolution and over a large geographic extent is explored using random forests (RF) machine learning; light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-derived terrain variables; additional variables relating to lithology, soils, distance to roads and streams and cost distance to roads and streams; and training data interpreted from high spatial resolution LiDAR-derivatives. Using a large training set and all predictor variables, an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) of 0.946 is obtained. Our findings highlight the value of a large training dataset, the incorporation of a variety of terrain variables and the use of variable window sizes to characterize the landscape at different spatial scales. We also document important variables for mapping slope failures. Our results suggest that feature selection is not required to improve the RF modeling results and that incorporating multiple models using different pseudo absence samples is not necessary. From our findings and based on a review of prior studies, we make recommendations for high spatial resolution, large-area slope failure probabilistic mapping.
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