Identifying the controls on coastal cliff landslides using machine-learning approaches

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 76, Issue , 2016, Pages 117-127

  Dickson, Mark E ^a   Perry, George L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cliffs; Erosion; Landsliding; Machine learning; Maxent; Regression trees

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EROSION; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES;

CLIFFS; LANDSLIDING; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; MAXENT; RE-SAMPLING APPROACH; REGRESSION TREES; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; THREE MACHINE LEARNING METHODS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CLIFF; COASTAL ZONE; EROSION CONTROL; LANDSLIDE; MACHINE LEARNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

AUCKLAND; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 84951567957     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.10.029     Document Type: Article

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