Item: Features ranking for avalanche forecasting: method and results for northwestern himalaya
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Title: Features ranking for avalanche forecasting: method and results for northwestern himalaya
Proceedings: 2010 International Snow Science Workshop
Authors: B Chandra1, Amreek Singh2,*, Dan Singh2, A Ganju2 1Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India) 2Snow & Avalanche Study Establishment, Chandigarh (India)
Date: 2010
Abstract: The complex interaction of snow and meteorological features leads to formation of avalanches. Thus, the identification of significant governing features in the avalanche formation process is very critical aspect for developing any prediction scheme. This has direct implication on the design complexity of prediction scheme, computational effort involved and in turn on the overall performance. In this direction, numerical feature selection methods have immense potential to rank the features according to their importance in the problem domain. In the present study, two feature ranking methods: Sequential Forward Generation (SFG) and Relief-F have been explored for finding the relative significance of snow and meteorological features which are believed to be critically connected with avalanche occurrences. The paper describes the methods and their outcome for two climatologically different areas of Northwestern Himalaya. The outcome of the methods was further applied to a Nearest-Neighbours method based avalanche prediction model used as classifier. The efficacy of the proposed methods has been analyzed in the backdrop of classification results thus obtained, using statistical skill scores. The study establishes the potential of these methods to be used as objective tools to find relative significance of features in quantitative terms for avalanche forecasting.
Presenters: Unknown
Keywords: feature selection, sequential forward generation, relief-f, nearest-neighbours method
Subjects: avalanche forecasting northwestern himalaya sequential forward generation
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