Arid Zone Research ›› 2022, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (1): 322-332.doi: 10.13866/j.azr.2022.01.31

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Comparative agricultural drought monitoring based on three machine learning methods

WANG Xiaoyan(),LI Jing(),XING Liting   

  1. College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
  • Received:2021-03-12 Revised:2021-06-02 Online:2022-01-15 Published:2022-01-24
  • Contact: Jing LI E-mail:1748417278@qq.com;li_jinger@163.com

Abstract:

Frequent droughts have caused serious harm to the economy and agricultural production of Gansu Province. Therefore, it is very important for the province to use advanced methods to establish accurate and reliable agricultural drought monitoring models. Three machine learning methods (random forest, BP neural network, support vector machine) are used to construct an agricultural drought monitoring model using remote sensing factors and meteorological factors. Analysis of the best model for agricultural drought monitoring in Gansu Province. At the same time, the applicability of the model constructed by machine learning in different environments was further explored. The results show that among the models constructed by the three machine learning methods, the RF model has a high coefficient of determination (0.86) and small errors (RMSE 0.40, MAE 0.31). The monitoring effect of agricultural drought is better than the model constructed by BP and SVM; The three machine learning method models constructed in the two environments, respectively, performed better in the wet environment, while the model constructed by the random forest method performed better than the other two models in monitoring drought in the two environments. The research results provide a new scientific method for agricultural drought monitoring and evaluation in Gansu Province, and are of great significance to agricultural drought research.

Key words: agricultural drought, machine learning, SPEI, MODIS