Drought Prediction with Raw Satellite Imagery and Ensemble Supervised Machine Learning

Authors

  • Owais Raza Department of Software Engineering , Mehran UET, Pakistan
  • Mohsin Memon Department of Software Engineering , Mehran UET, Pakistan
  • Sania Bhatti Department of Software Engineering , Mehran UET, Pakistan
  • Nazia Pathan Department of Software Engineering , Mehran UET, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.80.2021.81.1.7

Abstract

Drought is one of the biggest challenges that environmentalists face today because of rapidly evolving climate. The negative impacts of drought on the economy, humans and other living organisms endure long after the ending of drought, and with time its intensity also increases. One way to fight the adverse effects of drought is to perform drought prediction and so that appropriate decisions can be made accordingly. Drought prediction can be made considering vegetation and water level in any region therefore, in this research we are using satellite images to predict drought conditions and its various stages, like if it is about to come or it has passed. All these predictions will be helpful for authorities to make informed decisions. We are employing supervised machine learning nevertheless to obtain the best results. We are using boosting and bagging which is ensemble supervised machine learning techniques. The experiments performed proved that bagging is better than boosting classifiers and it is less computationally expensive; and boosting on the other hand is less accurate and computationally expensive.

Keywords:

Drought, Machine learning, Ensemble machine learning, Satellite imagery, Boosting, Bagging

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Published

2021-04-01

How to Cite

Raza, O. ., Memon, M. ., Bhatti, S. ., & Pathan, N. . (2021). Drought Prediction with Raw Satellite Imagery and Ensemble Supervised Machine Learning. Review of Environment and Earth Sciences, 8(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.80.2021.81.1.7

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