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Random Forest-Based Stability Prediction Modeling of Closed Wall for Goaf

  • Yong Yang,
  • Kepeng Hou,
  • Huafen Sun,
  • Linning Guo and
  • Yalei Zhe

21 February 2025

To effectively mitigate the hazards posed by the blast waves of rock mass caving on closed walls during the mining process, a stability prediction method based on a random forest (RF) algorithm is proposed, which is designed to automatically identify...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application, Optimization and Architecture of Deep Learning Neural Network)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,758 Views
16 Pages

Rapid and Accurate Prediction of Soil Texture Using an Image-Based Deep Learning Autoencoder Convolutional Neural Network Random Forest (DLAC-CNN-RF) Algorithm

  • Zhuan Zhao,
  • Wenkang Feng,
  • Jinrui Xiao,
  • Xiaochu Liu and ,
  • Shusheng Pan and
  • Zhongwei Liang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 December 2022

Soil determines the degree of water infiltration, crop nutrient absorption, and germination, which in turn affects crop yield and quality. For the efficient planting of agricultural products, the accurate identification of soil texture is necessary....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue “Smart Agriculture” Information Technology and Agriculture Cross-Discipline Research and Development)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,552 Views
22 Pages

This study proposes an explainability-driven feature selection framework for phishing website detection using a large-scale, heterogeneous dataset collected from four independent sources. The combined dataset contains approximately 500,000 samples, i...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
131 Citations
15,770 Views
22 Pages

Object-Based Land Cover Classification of Cork Oak Woodlands using UAV Imagery and Orfeo ToolBox

  • Giandomenico De Luca,
  • João M. N. Silva,
  • Sofia Cerasoli,
  • João Araújo and ,
  • José Campos,
  • Salvatore Di Fazio and
  • Giuseppe Modica
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 May 2019

This paper investigates the reliability of free and open-source algorithms used in the geographical object-based image classification (GEOBIA) of very high resolution (VHR) imagery surveyed by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). UAV surveys were carried...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV Applications in Forestry)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,688 Views
17 Pages

Extraction of Kenyan Grassland Information Using PROBA-V Based on RFE-RF Algorithm

  • Panpan Wei,
  • Weiwei Zhu,
  • Yifan Zhao,
  • Peng Fang and ,
  • Xiwang Zhang,
  • Nana Yan and
  • Hao Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 November 2021

Africa has the largest grassland area among all grassland ecosystems in the world. As a typical agricultural and animal husbandry country in Africa, animal husbandry plays an important role in this region. The investigation of grassland resources and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Ecosystems)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,610 Views
16 Pages

Nondestructive Classification of Maize Moldy Seeds by Hyperspectral Imaging and Optimal Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Yating Hu,
  • Zhi Wang,
  • Xiaofeng Li,
  • Lei Li and ,
  • Xigang Wang and
  • Yanlin Wei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 August 2022

Mildew of maize seeds may affect their germination rates and reduce crop quality. It is crucial to classify maize seeds efficiently and without destroying their original structure. This study aimed to establish hyperspectral datasets using hyperspect...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,930 Views
16 Pages

12 September 2023

In order to quickly and accurately predict borehole spontaneous combustion danger and avoid borehole spontaneous combustion fires, a borehole spontaneous combustion prediction model combining the Hunger Games search optimization algorithm (HGS) and R...

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  • Open Access
72 Citations
4,278 Views
15 Pages

Predicting the Compressive Strength of the Cement-Fly Ash–Slag Ternary Concrete Using the Firefly Algorithm (FA) and Random Forest (RF) Hybrid Machine-Learning Method

  • Jiandong Huang,
  • Mohanad Muayad Sabri Sabri,
  • Dmitrii Vladimirovich Ulrikh,
  • Mahmood Ahmad and
  • Kifayah Abood Mohammed Alsaffar

13 June 2022

Concrete is the most widely used material in construction. It has the characteristics of strong plasticity, good economy, high safety, and good durability. As a kind of structural material, concrete must have sufficient strength to resist various loa...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Composites)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,481 Views
19 Pages

Golf course maintenance requires the use of several inputs, such as pesticides and fertilizers, that can be harmful to human health or the environment. Understanding the factors associated with pesticide use on golf courses may help golf-course manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,690 Views
23 Pages

A Random Forest-Enhanced Genetic Algorithm for Order Acceptance Scheduling with Past-Sequence-Dependent Setup Times

  • Yu-Yan Zhang,
  • Shih-Hsin Chen,
  • Yen-Wen Wang,
  • Chia-Hsuan Liao and
  • Chen-Hsiang Yu

19 August 2025

This study developed a simple genetic algorithm (SGA) enhanced by a random forest (RF) surrogate model, namely SGARF, to solve the permutation flow-shop scheduling problem with order acceptance under the conditions of limited capacity, weighted-tardi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Computing, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,684 Views
23 Pages

Novel MLR-RF-Based Geospatial Techniques: A Comparison with OK

  • Waqas Ahmed,
  • Khan Muhammad,
  • Hylke Jan Glass,
  • Snehamoy Chatterjee and ,
  • Asif Khan and
  • Abid Hussain
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Geostatistical estimation methods rely on experimental variograms that are mostly erratic, leading to subjective model fitting and assuming normal distribution during conditional simulations. In contrast, Machine Learning Algorithms (MLA) are (1) fre...

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  • Open Access
73 Citations
6,224 Views
17 Pages

Hyperspectral-Based Estimation of Leaf Nitrogen Content in Corn Using Optimal Selection of Multiple Spectral Variables

  • Lingling Fan,
  • Jinling Zhao,
  • Xingang Xu,
  • Dong Liang and ,
  • Guijun Yang,
  • Haikuan Feng,
  • Hao Yang,
  • Yulong Wang,
  • Guo Chen and
  • Pengfei Wei
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

30 June 2019

Accurate and dynamic monitoring of crop nitrogen status is the basis of scientific decisions regarding fertilization. In this study, we compared and analyzed three types of spectral variables: Sensitive spectral bands, the position of spectral featur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors in Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,635 Views
24 Pages

17 November 2023

The steady airflow field on a ship is affected by structure and motion and challenged by phenomena such as the low measurement accuracy of the wind field caused by the occlusion of the anemometer. In this work, an improvement in the accuracy of wind...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Oceanography)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,942 Views
22 Pages

The accurate estimation of urban property values is a key challenge for appraisers, market participants, financial institutions, and urban planners. In recent years, machine learning (ML) techniques have emerged as promising tools for price forecasti...

(This article belongs to the Topic Improving Nature-Smart Policies through Innovative Resilient Evaluations)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,911 Views
17 Pages

The accurate and timely identification of crops holds paramount significance for effective crop management and yield estimation. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), with their superior spatial and temporal resolution compared to satellite-based remote sen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi- and Hyper-Spectral Imaging Technologies for Crop Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,858 Views
18 Pages

A New Application of Random Forest Algorithm to Estimate Coverage of Moss-Dominated Biological Soil Crusts in Semi-Arid Mu Us Sandy Land, China

  • Xiang Chen,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Shulin Liu,
  • Fei Peng and ,
  • Atsushi Tsunekawa,
  • Wenping Kang,
  • Zichen Guo and
  • Kun Feng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

30 May 2019

Biological soil crusts (BSCs) play an essential role in desert ecosystems. Knowledge of the distribution and disappearance of BSCs is vital for the management of ecosystems and for desertification researches. However, the major remote sensing approac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
159 Citations
13,479 Views
25 Pages

18 January 2019

Land use change (LUC) driven by human activities and natural factors has resulted in the global loss of native biodiversity and the alteration of ecological processes and services across different ecosystems. It is thus necessary to analyze the trend...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,887 Views
24 Pages

16 December 2022

Due to the natural conditions and inappropriate management responses, large part of plains and forests in Iran have been burned in recent years. Given the increasing availability of open-access satellite images and open-source software packages, we d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Hazard Mapping with Google Earth Engine)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,547 Views
18 Pages

Prediction and Impact Analysis of Soil Nitrogen and Salinity Under Reclaimed Water Irrigation: A Case Study

  • Zeyu Liu,
  • Kai Fang,
  • Xiaoqin Sun,
  • Yandong Wang and ,
  • Zhuo Tian,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Liying Bai and
  • Qilin He
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 February 2025

Reclaimed water irrigation is increasingly being applied to address global water scarcity, yet its long-term effects on soil nitrogen cycling and salinity dynamics, particularly in agricultural and agroforestry systems, remain complex and insufficien...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
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  • Open Access
504 Views
30 Pages

1 September 2026

Blast-induced flyrock is one of the most critical hazards in surface mining and quarrying, posing significant risks to occupational safety, nearby structures, and the environment. Accurate prediction of flyrock distance is therefore essential for saf...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,094 Views
31 Pages

Accurate prognosis and diagnosis are crucial for selecting and planning lung cancer treatments. As a result of the rapid development of medical imaging technology, the use of computed tomography (CT) scans in pathology is becoming standard practice....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Biomedical Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Medicine)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,542 Views
20 Pages

Evaluation of QSAR Equations for Virtual Screening

  • Jacob Spiegel and
  • Hanoch Senderowitz

22 October 2020

Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) models can inform on the correlation between activities and structure-based molecular descriptors. This information is important for the understanding of the factors that govern molecular properties...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue QSAR and Chemoinformatics in Molecular Modeling and Drug Design)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,666 Views
23 Pages

28 November 2024

In forest resource surveys, using sampling methods to estimate aboveground carbon stock (ACS) can significantly reduce survey costs. This study improves the accuracy of ACS estimation by optimizing the stratified sampling design. The sampling process...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forest Inventory: The Monitoring of Biomass and Carbon Stocks)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,977 Views
20 Pages

Studying Forest Species Classification Methods by Combining PolSAR and Vegetation Spectral Indices

  • Hongbo Zhu,
  • Weidong Song,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Ergaojie Lu and ,
  • Jiguang Dai,
  • Wei Zhao and
  • Zhongchao Hu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 December 2024

Tree species are important factors affecting the carbon sequestration capacity of forests and maintaining the stability of ecosystems, but trees are widely distributed spatially and located in complex environments, and there is a lack of large-scale...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
991 Citations
54,014 Views
20 Pages

22 December 2017

In previous classification studies, three non-parametric classifiers, Random Forest (RF), k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN), and Support Vector Machine (SVM), were reported as the foremost classifiers at producing high accuracies. However, only a few studies...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data)
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  • Open Access
112 Citations
12,629 Views
20 Pages

Mapping Tidal Flats with Landsat 8 Images and Google Earth Engine: A Case Study of the China’s Eastern Coastal Zone circa 2015

  • Kangyong Zhang,
  • Xuanyan Dong,
  • Zhigang Liu,
  • Wenxiu Gao and ,
  • Zhongwen Hu and
  • Guofeng Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 April 2019

Accurate and up-to-date tidal flat mapping is of much importance to learning how coastal ecosystems work in a time of anthropogenic disturbances and rising sea levels, which will provide scientific instruction for sustainable management and ecologica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Google Earth Engine and Cloud Computing Platforms: Methods and Applications in Big Geo Data Science)
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  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,513 Views
17 Pages

16 November 2019

We present a comparative study between predictive monthly rainfall models for islands of complex orography using machine learning techniques. The models have been developed for the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands). Weather forecasting is influence...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,076 Views
22 Pages

22 May 2025

In view of the diversity and varying complexity of ship equipment, and the difficulty of existing state assessment methods in effectively handling the differences in the influence of different characteristic parameters on the equipment’s health...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,678 Views
20 Pages

Regionalization of Rainfall Regimes Using Hybrid RF-Bs Couple with Multivariate Approaches

  • Muhamad Afdal Ahmad Basri,
  • Shazlyn Milleana Shaharudin,
  • Kismiantini,
  • Mou Leong Tan and ,
  • Sumayyah Aimi Mohd Najib,
  • Nurul Hila Zainuddin and
  • Sri Andayani
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Monthly precipitation data during the period of 1970 to 2019 obtained from the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency database were used to analyze regionalized precipitation regimes in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. There were missing values...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,285 Views
15 Pages

8 February 2022

Audio classification algorithms for hearing aids require excellent classification accuracy. To achieve effective performance, we first present a novel supervised method, involving a spectral entropy-based magnitude feature with a random forest classi...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,235 Views
18 Pages

27 July 2024

Serious farmland abandonment in hilly areas, and the resolution of commonly used satellite-borne remote sensing images are insufficient to meet the needs of identifying abandoned farmland in such regions. Furthermore, addressing the problem of identi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
716 Citations
38,111 Views
37 Pages

30 April 2019

Random forests (RF) is a supervised machine learning algorithm, which has recently started to gain prominence in water resources applications. However, existing applications are generally restricted to the implementation of Breiman’s original a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Techniques for Mapping and Assessing Surface Runoff)
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  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,482 Views
22 Pages

24 August 2022

Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) have been gradually used as the driving equipment of coal mine belt conveyors. To ensure safety and stability, it is necessary to carry out real-time and accurate fault diagnosis of PMSM. Therefore, a fault...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI / Machine Learning Techniques as a Tool for Process Modeling and Product Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
7,172 Views
27 Pages

29 April 2022

The accurate estimation of spatially explicit forest aboveground biomass (AGB) provides an essential basis for sustainable forest management and carbon sequestration accounting, especially in Myanmar, where there is a lack of data for forest conserva...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring Forest Carbon Sequestration with Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,671 Views
21 Pages

8 December 2023

In recent years, with the development of societies and economies, the demand for social electricity has further increased. The efficiency and accuracy of electric-load forecasting is an important guarantee for the safety and reliability of power syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Forecasting and Optimization in Electrical Power Systems II)
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  • Open Access
108 Citations
9,821 Views
21 Pages

High-Resolution Mangrove Forests Classification with Machine Learning Using Worldview and UAV Hyperspectral Data

  • Yufeng Jiang,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Min Yan,
  • Jianguo Qi and ,
  • Tianmeng Fu,
  • Shunxiang Fan and
  • Bowei Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 April 2021

Mangrove forests, as important ecological and economic resources, have suffered a loss in the area due to natural and human activities. Monitoring the distribution of and obtaining accurate information on mangrove species is necessary for amelioratin...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,661 Views
13 Pages

12 April 2021

One of the most important hyper-parameters in the Random Forest (RF) algorithm is the feature set size used to search for the best partitioning rule at each node of trees. Most existing research on feature set size has been done primarily with a focu...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
239 Citations
14,170 Views
21 Pages

11 May 2019

The main objectives of this paper are to demonstrate the results of an ensemble learning method based on prediction results of support vector machine and random forest methods using Bayesian average. In this study, we generated susceptibility maps of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Technology Applications in Forestry and REDD+)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,974 Views
17 Pages

A New Forest Growing Stock Volume Estimation Model Based on AdaBoost and Random Forest Model

  • Xiaorui Wang,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Zhenping Qiang,
  • Weiheng Xu and
  • Jinming Fan

29 January 2024

Forest growing stock volume is a crucial indicator for assessing forest resources. However, contemporary machine learning models used in estimating forest growing stock volume often exhibit fluctuating precision and are confined to specific tree spec...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
12,180 Views
31 Pages

21 December 2022

Sembilang National Park, one of the best and largest mangrove areas in Indonesia, is very vulnerable to disturbance by community activities. Changes in the dynamic condition of mangrove forests in Sembilang National Park must be quickly and easily ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing in Mangroves II)
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  • Open Access
56 Citations
7,392 Views
18 Pages

4 July 2019

Spectral, spatial, and temporal features play important roles in land cover classification. However, limitations still exist in the integrated application of spectral-spatial-temporal (SST) features for forest type discrimination. This paper proposes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of LiDAR and Photogrammetry for Forest Inventory and Management)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,496 Views
16 Pages

26 March 2024

The online measurement of the aluminum–silicon ratio of red mud in the dissolution stage of the Bayer alumina production process is difficult to achieve. The offline assay method has a high cost and strong time delay. Soft sensors are an effect...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,431 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2016

Ensemble classifiers are being widely used for the classification of spectroscopic data. In this regard, the random forest (RF) ensemble has been successfully applied in an array of applications, and has proven to be robust in handling high dimension...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,116 Views
17 Pages

Research on Estimation Model of Carbon Stock Based on Airborne LiDAR and Feature Screening

  • Xuan Liu,
  • Ruirui Wang,
  • Wei Shi,
  • Xiaoyan Wang and
  • Yaoyao Yang

15 May 2024

The rapid and accurate estimation of forest carbon stock is important for analyzing the carbon cycle. In order to obtain forest carbon stock efficiently, this paper utilizes airborne LiDAR data to research the applicability of different feature scree...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing Forest and Plant Resources for Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
69 Citations
13,012 Views
25 Pages

10 April 2024

Improving the precision of remote sensing estimation and implementing the fusion and analysis of multi-source data are crucial for accurately estimating the aboveground carbon storage in forests. Using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform in conjun...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,397 Views
21 Pages

27 March 2025

Studying the spatial variation patterns and influencing factors of soil organic matter (SOM) in hilly and basin areas is of great significance for guiding agricultural production practices. This study takes Lanxi City as an example and comprehensivel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,868 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2021

Machine Learning prediction algorithms have made significant contributions in today’s world, leading to increased usage in various domains. However, as ML algorithms surge, the need for transparent and interpretable models becomes essential. Vi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Electronics: Recent Advances in Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,418 Views
17 Pages

9 July 2022

Network attack traffic detection plays a crucial role in protecting network operations and services. To accurately detect malicious traffic on the internet, this paper designs a hybrid algorithm UMAP-RF for both binary and multiclassification network...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
8,726 Views
19 Pages

30 March 2018

Forest Aboveground Biomass (AGB) is a key parameter for assessing forest productivity and global carbon content. In previous studies, AGB has been estimated using various prediction methods and types of remote sensing data. Increasingly, there is a t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomass Remote Sensing in Forest Landscapes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,588 Views
13 Pages

Can China Meet Its 2030 Total Energy Consumption Target? Based on an RF-SSA-SVR-KDE Model

  • Xiwen Cui,
  • Xinyu Guan,
  • Dongyu Wang,
  • Dongxiao Niu and
  • Xiaomin Xu

19 August 2022

In order to accurately predict China’s future total energy consumption, this article constructs a random forest (RF)–sparrow search algorithm (SSA)–support vector regression machine (SVR)–kernel density estimation (KDE) model...

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