Predicting potential distributions of geographic events using one-class data: Concepts and methods

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1697-1715

  Guo, Q ^a   Li, W ^a   Liu, Y ^b   Tong, D ^c  

^a Merced   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological niche modelling; Geographic one class data; Maximum entropy; One class support vector machine; Positive and unlabelled learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; GIS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VECTOR;

EID: 84862908217     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2010.546360     Document Type: Article

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