期刊
SPATIAL STATISTICS
卷 14, 期 -, 页码 91-113出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.spasta.2015.05.008
关键词
Spatial interpolation; Machine learning; Air temperature; Kriging; Cubist; Cross-validation
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资金
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [Ap 243/1-2, Na 783/5-1, Na 783/5-2]
- US National Science Foundation
- NOAA, through NSF [0402557, 9909201]
Spatially high resolution climate information is required for a variety of applications in but not limited to functional biodiversity research. In order to scale the generally plot-based research findings to a landscape level, spatial interpolation methods of meteorological variables are required. Based on a network of temperature observation plots across the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the skill of 14 machine learning algorithms in predicting spatial temperature patterns is tested and evaluated against the heavily utilized kriging approach. Based on a 10-fold cross-validation testing design, regression trees generally perform better than linear and non-linear regression models. The best individual performance has been observed by the stochastic gradient boosting model followed by Cubist, random forest and model averaged neural networks which except for the latter are all regression tree-based algorithms. While these machine learning algorithms perform better than kriging in a quantitative evaluation, the overall visual interpretation of the resulting air temperature maps is ambiguous. Here, a combined Cubist and residual kriging approach can be considered the best solution. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
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