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Integrating Multicriteria Environmental Factors and Spatially Cross-Validated Machine Learning for Synthetic Erosion Vulnerability Assessment in the Betsiboka Region, Madagascar

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environment and energygeospatial

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paper
Créateur:
RasRakTovRaz
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Int
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This study integrates multicriteria environmental analysis and spatially cross-validated machine learning to assess synthetic erosion vulnerability in the Betsiboka Region, Madagascar. The vulnerability index combined low NDVI, slope, hydrographic proximity, elevation, and available geological, soil, rainfall, and land-cover factors on a 1 km grid. Hydrographic proximity was modelled using an exponential distance-decay function with a characteristic distance of 3 km, while geology was represented through normalized susceptibility scores ranging from 0 to 1. Three regression algorithms— Random Forest, Extra Trees, and Histogram Gradient Boosting—were evaluated using five-fold spatial block crossvalidation.

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