Asghar Rahmani; Fereydoon Sarmadian; Sayed Roholla Mousavi; Seyyed Erfan Khamoshi
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Conventional soil mapping is related to High density sampling, affected by scale and expert knowledge So using of new data mining methods in digital soil properties mapping was the main aim of this study for resolving conventional soil survey problems. In this research, 62 surface soil samples based ...
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Conventional soil mapping is related to High density sampling, affected by scale and expert knowledge So using of new data mining methods in digital soil properties mapping was the main aim of this study for resolving conventional soil survey problems. In this research, 62 surface soil samples based on regular grid and expert knowledge opinion were selected after that soil organic carbon(SOC), clay content and CaCO3 were determined in some part of Dryland Kuhin region with area of 372 ha. Data sets were divided to two 80%(calibration) and 20%(validation), respectively. From digital elevation model with 10-meter spatial resolution were derived 19 geomorphometric attribute in SAGA GIS software. Three geomorphometric covariate included TPI, TRI, DEM and landform map unit were chosen PCA and expert knowledge. RStudio and SoLIM Solution software were used for random forest (RF) and fuzzy logic modelling, respectively. The RF modelling results show that for SOC, clay and CaCO3 based on determination coefficient (R2) had 0.63,0.75,0.63 and RMSE 0.17,7.5,5.77 percentage and for SoLIM method revealed that R2 0.47,0.42,0.42 and RMSE 0.2,8.08,4.68 percentage, respectively. Generally, the RF model with creating nonlinear relationship among soil properties and environmental covariate can predicted digital map with appropriate precision for management and sustainable land utilization
ali rezazadeh joudi; Mohammad Taghi Sattari
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Estimation of suspended sediment load or specifying the damages incured as a result of inattention to such estimation is one of the most important and fundamental challenges in river engineering and sediment transport studies. Given the importance and role of sediment in the design and maintenance of ...
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Estimation of suspended sediment load or specifying the damages incured as a result of inattention to such estimation is one of the most important and fundamental challenges in river engineering and sediment transport studies. Given the importance and role of sediment in the design and maintenance of hydraulic structures such as dams, as well its significance in planning for efficient tilization of downstream river and also conservation of nutrients at the upstream of river, many attempts have been made to estimate suspended sediment load of rivers and numerical methods have been developed in this regard. But due to the high cost of most procedures or lack of adequate precision in most common experimental methods, a new method is needed that can estimate suspended sediment load with the greatest possible precision. In this study, the amount of suspended sediment load of Lighvan River has been estimated through support vector regression and k-Nearest neighbor methods. Results indicated the appropriateness of both data mining techniques applied in this study. Among examined methods in this study, the support vector regression method predicted the amount of suspended sediment load in LighvanChay River with representing evaluation indexes such as (CC=0.959, RMSE=43.547(ton/day)) more accurately than K-nearest neighbor method
Fereydoon Sarmadian; Ali Keshavarzi
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Data mining enables generalization of data of soil to remote areas and which is able to up/down scale of data in wide ranges of level that facilitate the decision-making process of executives. Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) is one of the most important parameters in soil database and shows the ability ...
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Data mining enables generalization of data of soil to remote areas and which is able to up/down scale of data in wide ranges of level that facilitate the decision-making process of executives. Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) is one of the most important parameters in soil database and shows the ability of a soil to retention of minerals and pollutants. Due to low organic matter and specific mineralogy of soils in arid and semi-arid regions, measurement of CEC is time consuming and expensive. The objective of this study was to evaluate Coactive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (CANFIS) in prediction of CEC in soils of arid and semi-arid regions. A total of 85 soil samples from target area were selected among 440 soil sample database (available reference database) with a ratio of 1:5. Correlation test was conducted to assess the co-linearity of independent variables. Forward regression model was used to determine the most important and influential input parameters on the output results. The results indicated the reliability and high performance of the CANFIS approach in estimation of CEC using easily measurable characteristics, organic material, and satellite images.
