Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models

Mapping ecological variables using machine-learning algorithms based on remote-sensing data has become a widespread practice in ecology. Here, the authors use forest biomass mapping as a study case to show that the most common model validation approach, which ignores data spatial structure, leads to...

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Main Authors: Pierre Ploton, Frédéric Mortier, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Nicolas Barbier, Nicolas Picard, Vivien Rossi, Carsten Dormann, Guillaume Cornu, Gaëlle Viennois, Nicolas Bayol, Alexei Lyapustin, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Raphaël Pélissier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18321-y