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Elevation (m)
51 Percentiles DEM Regosols
Digital Soil Mapping using Artificial Neural Networks – Sampling Issues
RICARDO BRASIL (1); INÊS FONSECA (1); SÉRGIO FREIRE (2); JORGE ROCHA (1); JOSÉ TENEDÓRIO (2)
(1) RISKam, Centre for Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon, Edf. Fac.
Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisbon, Portugal. rmsb@campus.ul.pt
(2) Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Planeamento Regional, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. De Berna 26-C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal
ResearchGrouponEnvironmentalHazardandRiskAssessmentandManagement
CentreofGeographicalStudies
InstituteofGeographyandSpatialPlanning,UniversityofLisbon
www.riskam.ul.pt
Input
Layer
Hidden
Layer
Output
Layer
Training Areas
Training set and model
Figure 2 - DEM for
the Regosols soil class
Figure 4 - Spatial distribution of training sites for the different
sampling strategies
Introduction
Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) is an advanced technique for
mapping soil classes (Dobos et al., 2006) which has been
developed to bridge the gap between existing soil maps based
on traditional soil survey and the increasing demand for soil
information. Indeed, at the European level, DSM has been
driven by the urgent need to address the importance of soils
and the growing concern about environmental disasters, the
impact of human activities on soils and the role that soil has on
global change.
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are sophisticated computer
programs which are able to model complex functional
relationships. As such, ANNs provide the means to predict soil
types at locations without soil spatial data by combing existing
soil maps with factors known to be responsible for the spatial
variation of soils (McBratney et al., 2003). Thus, a set of
variables related to soil forming factors and the respective soil
type are used as training data for the ANNs, which construct
rules (Tso & Mather, 2001) that can be extended to the
unmapped areas.
Whilst the literature provides a number of examples where
DSM is presented as an efficient surveying technique and soil
spatial variation is shown to be induced by a limited number of
soil forming factors (Mora-Vallejo et al., 2008), still little is
known about the impact that the training sites have on the
predictive accuracy of the models.
Indeed, sampling method and location of training sites is
particularly important for ANNs because their rate of learning,
convergion to a solution, network performance and ability to
generalise depend on the efficiency of the layout of the
sampling pattern which, in turn, depends on the presence of
spatial periodicity of the phenomena. Although all
environmental variables exhibit spatial autocorrelation at some
scale (Englund, 1988), high values found in the spatial
distribution of the variables used to train an ANN is likely to
affect its performance. Thus, the main objective of this work
is to assess the impact that sampling methods used to select
training areas for an ANN have on their predictive accuracy.
The study area is a catchment in Mondim de Basto, north-
western Portugal, approximately 900km2 in area. The
catchment was chosen because it presents a varied
geomorphological and ecological setting and a number of soils
that are well representative of the soil types found in the
region between the Douro and Minho rivers.
Study area
Figure 1 – Mondim de Basto catchment, in NW Portugal
Material and methods
The experimental setup for each training set used fixed input
specifications, as presented in table 1 (200 pixels per class for
training and testing), two network topology settings (1 hidden layer, no
layer two nodes and either 7 or 8 layer one nodes), with a variety of
training parameters changes which included using automatic training
and a dynamic learning rate which, if used, could vary between 0.01
and 0.2. The stopping criteria were achieving either a RMSE ≤ 0.01,
an accuracy of 100% or a maximum number of iterations ranging
from 1,000 to 100,000.
Table 1 – Characteristics of the ANN.
SRTM DEM
90m
Multicollinearity
Testing
Extraction of
Morphometric
Variables
Slope steepness
Upslope catchment area
Plan and Profile curvatures
Dispersal area
Wetness index
Potential solar radiation
Geological Map Vectorization
Llithological
Classes
Corine Land
Cover 2006
Extraction of
study area
Land use
Classes
Soil Digital Map
1:100 000
Extraction of
study area
Soil Classes
Geo-referenced Data - Coordinates
(latitude and longitude)
Latitude and
Longitude
Data:
Sampling:
Soil Spatial Data
SS
SRS
SRPS
SNPSRS
Two different sampling strategies were implemented for training a
multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network model in IDRISI Taiga
(Clark Labs), using a highly popular supervised method known as
error back-propagating algorithm (Haykin, 1999). Thus, the ANN was
trained by presenting it a number of different examples of the same
soil type drawn either (i) randomly (RS), or (ii) in a stratified fashion
(SS). For the latter, training pixel vectors were located by choosing (a)
random coordinates within soil types strata (SRS), (b) random
coordinates within soil types strata and chosen evenly in the
frequency space (Figure 4) (SRPS) and, (c) nearest coordinates
within soil types strata and chosen evenly in the frequency space
(SNPS).
Digital soil data at 1:100000 were provided by DRAEM, the regional
agriculture department of North West Portugal. In order to account for
the possible effect of autocorrelation, the coordinates (latitude and
longitude) were also included in the input vector to indicate location.
Inputs
Classifier parameters
Group Parameter Default value
Input specifications Avg. training pixels per class 500
Avg. testing pixels per class 500
Network topology Hidden layers 1
Layer 1 nodes 1
Training parameters Use automatic training no
Use dynamic learning rate no
Learning rate 0.01
End Learning rate 0.001
Momentum factor 0.5
Sigmoid constant "a" 1
Stopping criteria RMS 0.01
Iterations 10000
Accuracy rate 1
Table 2 – Impact of sampling method on the performance of
ANN models and no. of iterations required to achieve the best
results obtained with each method, assessed through
predictive accuracy level and minimum and maximum RMSE
values in the testing set.
Results and discussion Conclusions
The main conclusions of this work are:
(1) sampling strategy has a very important impact on the accuracy of
soil predictive maps developed using ANNs and different
strategies should be tested, and
(2) sampling strategy benefits from reflecting high autocorrelation of
factors of soil formation because the ANN learns faster that close
neighbouring positions are more likely to have similar soil types,
allowing the ANN to converge faster to a better solution.
Spatial autocorrelation assessment, measured through
Moran´s I, indicates that autocorrelation is significantly high for
wetness index (0.65) and slope steepness (0.76) and very
high for potential solar radiation (0.88) and altitude (0.99).
Analysis of all the results obtained with the different model
parameterisations shows that the predictive accuracy of the
ANN models is highly dependent on the sampling method and
highly correlated with RMSE but not so dependent on the
number of iterations (Table 2).
Whilst random sampling did not achieve as good predictive
accuracy results as the one possible to obtain with stratified
sampling (65% vs. 75%), it is clear that spatial autocorrelation
causes an oustanding drop-off in the number of iterations
required to achieve similar levels of accuracy (71% and 75%)
and RMSE (0.31). Thus, accounting for spatial autocorrelation
by choosing pixels that are as close as possible to each other
(SNPS) resulted in only 5,000 iterations being required (as
opposed to 30,000) to achieve similar accuracy levels.
DOBOS E., CARRÉ F., HENGL T., REUTER H.I. & TÓTH G. (2006) Digital Soil Mapping as
a Support to Production of Functional Maps. EUR 22123 EN. Office for Official Publications of
the European Communities, Luxemburg, 68pp.
ENGLUND E.J. (1988) Spatial Autocorrelation: Implications for Sampling and Estimation. In
Liggett W. (Ed.) Proceedings of the ASA/EPA Conferences on Interpretation of Environmental
Data, III Sampling and Site Selection in Environmental Studies, EPA 230/8-88/035, 31-39
HAYKIN S. (1999) Neural Networks – a Comprehensive Foundation. Prentice Hall, New
Jersey, 842pp.
MCBRATNEY A.B., MENDONÇA SANTOS M.L., MINASNY B. (2003) On digital soil
mapping. Geoderma, 117, 3-52.
MORA-VALLEJO A., CLAESSENS L., STOONVOGEL J. & HEUVELINK G.B.M. (2008) Small
scale digital soil mapping in southeastern Kenya. Catena, 76, 44-53.
TSO B. & MATHER P.M. (2001) Classification Methods for Remotely Sensed Data. Taylor
and Francis, London, 332pp.
References
Sampling
Method
Iterations
Testing
Accuracy
(%)
RMSE
Min RMSE Max RMSE
SRPS 50000 0.37 0.39 57.8 0.36
RS 40000 0.36 0.46 65.4 0.35
SNPS 5000 0.31 0.43 71.1 0.31
SRS 30000 0.3 0.37 74.7 0.31
Figure 3 - Example of the 51 values (50 percentiles + min value) selected to
represent the frequency distribution of the elevation values for Regosols in Mondim
de Basto
Elevation values (m) for the soil class of Regosols (min:58;max:1298)
Percentiles selected representing the frequency of the elevation values for the Regosols class
Percentiles (m)
Figure 5 - Illustration of the configuration of an ANN showing the input
maps, layer nodes and output map
Predicted soil classes

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  • 1. 58 149 187 216 241 263 283 302 318 335 352 367 383 398 413 427 441 456 470 484 499 514 528 542 556 570 583 596 610 623 637 650 663 678 691 704 717 732 748 765 785 809 837 867 906 941 972 1007 1059 1137 1298 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 Elevation (m) 51 Percentiles DEM Regosols Digital Soil Mapping using Artificial Neural Networks – Sampling Issues RICARDO BRASIL (1); INÊS FONSECA (1); SÉRGIO FREIRE (2); JORGE ROCHA (1); JOSÉ TENEDÓRIO (2) (1) RISKam, Centre for Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning - University of Lisbon, Edf. Fac. Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisbon, Portugal. rmsb@campus.ul.pt (2) Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Planeamento Regional, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. De Berna 26-C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal ResearchGrouponEnvironmentalHazardandRiskAssessmentandManagement CentreofGeographicalStudies InstituteofGeographyandSpatialPlanning,UniversityofLisbon www.riskam.ul.pt Input Layer Hidden Layer Output Layer Training Areas Training set and model Figure 2 - DEM for the Regosols soil class Figure 4 - Spatial distribution of training sites for the different sampling strategies Introduction Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) is an advanced technique for mapping soil classes (Dobos et al., 2006) which has been developed to bridge the gap between existing soil maps based on traditional soil survey and the increasing demand for soil information. Indeed, at the European level, DSM has been driven by the urgent need to address the importance of soils and the growing concern about environmental disasters, the impact of human activities on soils and the role that soil has on global change. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are sophisticated computer programs which are able to model complex functional relationships. As such, ANNs provide the means to predict soil types at locations without soil spatial data by combing existing soil maps with factors known to be responsible for the spatial variation of soils (McBratney et al., 2003). Thus, a set of variables related to soil forming factors and the respective soil type are used as training data for the ANNs, which construct rules (Tso & Mather, 2001) that can be extended to the unmapped areas. Whilst the literature provides a number of examples where DSM is presented as an efficient surveying technique and soil spatial variation is shown to be induced by a limited number of soil forming factors (Mora-Vallejo et al., 2008), still little is known about the impact that the training sites have on the predictive accuracy of the models. Indeed, sampling method and location of training sites is particularly important for ANNs because their rate of learning, convergion to a solution, network performance and ability to generalise depend on the efficiency of the layout of the sampling pattern which, in turn, depends on the presence of spatial periodicity of the phenomena. Although all environmental variables exhibit spatial autocorrelation at some scale (Englund, 1988), high values found in the spatial distribution of the variables used to train an ANN is likely to affect its performance. Thus, the main objective of this work is to assess the impact that sampling methods used to select training areas for an ANN have on their predictive accuracy. The study area is a catchment in Mondim de Basto, north- western Portugal, approximately 900km2 in area. The catchment was chosen because it presents a varied geomorphological and ecological setting and a number of soils that are well representative of the soil types found in the region between the Douro and Minho rivers. Study area Figure 1 – Mondim de Basto catchment, in NW Portugal Material and methods The experimental setup for each training set used fixed input specifications, as presented in table 1 (200 pixels per class for training and testing), two network topology settings (1 hidden layer, no layer two nodes and either 7 or 8 layer one nodes), with a variety of training parameters changes which included using automatic training and a dynamic learning rate which, if used, could vary between 0.01 and 0.2. The stopping criteria were achieving either a RMSE ≤ 0.01, an accuracy of 100% or a maximum number of iterations ranging from 1,000 to 100,000. Table 1 – Characteristics of the ANN. SRTM DEM 90m Multicollinearity Testing Extraction of Morphometric Variables Slope steepness Upslope catchment area Plan and Profile curvatures Dispersal area Wetness index Potential solar radiation Geological Map Vectorization Llithological Classes Corine Land Cover 2006 Extraction of study area Land use Classes Soil Digital Map 1:100 000 Extraction of study area Soil Classes Geo-referenced Data - Coordinates (latitude and longitude) Latitude and Longitude Data: Sampling: Soil Spatial Data SS SRS SRPS SNPSRS Two different sampling strategies were implemented for training a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network model in IDRISI Taiga (Clark Labs), using a highly popular supervised method known as error back-propagating algorithm (Haykin, 1999). Thus, the ANN was trained by presenting it a number of different examples of the same soil type drawn either (i) randomly (RS), or (ii) in a stratified fashion (SS). For the latter, training pixel vectors were located by choosing (a) random coordinates within soil types strata (SRS), (b) random coordinates within soil types strata and chosen evenly in the frequency space (Figure 4) (SRPS) and, (c) nearest coordinates within soil types strata and chosen evenly in the frequency space (SNPS). Digital soil data at 1:100000 were provided by DRAEM, the regional agriculture department of North West Portugal. In order to account for the possible effect of autocorrelation, the coordinates (latitude and longitude) were also included in the input vector to indicate location. Inputs Classifier parameters Group Parameter Default value Input specifications Avg. training pixels per class 500 Avg. testing pixels per class 500 Network topology Hidden layers 1 Layer 1 nodes 1 Training parameters Use automatic training no Use dynamic learning rate no Learning rate 0.01 End Learning rate 0.001 Momentum factor 0.5 Sigmoid constant "a" 1 Stopping criteria RMS 0.01 Iterations 10000 Accuracy rate 1 Table 2 – Impact of sampling method on the performance of ANN models and no. of iterations required to achieve the best results obtained with each method, assessed through predictive accuracy level and minimum and maximum RMSE values in the testing set. Results and discussion Conclusions The main conclusions of this work are: (1) sampling strategy has a very important impact on the accuracy of soil predictive maps developed using ANNs and different strategies should be tested, and (2) sampling strategy benefits from reflecting high autocorrelation of factors of soil formation because the ANN learns faster that close neighbouring positions are more likely to have similar soil types, allowing the ANN to converge faster to a better solution. Spatial autocorrelation assessment, measured through Moran´s I, indicates that autocorrelation is significantly high for wetness index (0.65) and slope steepness (0.76) and very high for potential solar radiation (0.88) and altitude (0.99). Analysis of all the results obtained with the different model parameterisations shows that the predictive accuracy of the ANN models is highly dependent on the sampling method and highly correlated with RMSE but not so dependent on the number of iterations (Table 2). Whilst random sampling did not achieve as good predictive accuracy results as the one possible to obtain with stratified sampling (65% vs. 75%), it is clear that spatial autocorrelation causes an oustanding drop-off in the number of iterations required to achieve similar levels of accuracy (71% and 75%) and RMSE (0.31). Thus, accounting for spatial autocorrelation by choosing pixels that are as close as possible to each other (SNPS) resulted in only 5,000 iterations being required (as opposed to 30,000) to achieve similar accuracy levels. DOBOS E., CARRÉ F., HENGL T., REUTER H.I. & TÓTH G. (2006) Digital Soil Mapping as a Support to Production of Functional Maps. EUR 22123 EN. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxemburg, 68pp. ENGLUND E.J. (1988) Spatial Autocorrelation: Implications for Sampling and Estimation. In Liggett W. (Ed.) Proceedings of the ASA/EPA Conferences on Interpretation of Environmental Data, III Sampling and Site Selection in Environmental Studies, EPA 230/8-88/035, 31-39 HAYKIN S. (1999) Neural Networks – a Comprehensive Foundation. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 842pp. MCBRATNEY A.B., MENDONÇA SANTOS M.L., MINASNY B. (2003) On digital soil mapping. Geoderma, 117, 3-52. MORA-VALLEJO A., CLAESSENS L., STOONVOGEL J. & HEUVELINK G.B.M. (2008) Small scale digital soil mapping in southeastern Kenya. Catena, 76, 44-53. TSO B. & MATHER P.M. (2001) Classification Methods for Remotely Sensed Data. Taylor and Francis, London, 332pp. References Sampling Method Iterations Testing Accuracy (%) RMSE Min RMSE Max RMSE SRPS 50000 0.37 0.39 57.8 0.36 RS 40000 0.36 0.46 65.4 0.35 SNPS 5000 0.31 0.43 71.1 0.31 SRS 30000 0.3 0.37 74.7 0.31 Figure 3 - Example of the 51 values (50 percentiles + min value) selected to represent the frequency distribution of the elevation values for Regosols in Mondim de Basto Elevation values (m) for the soil class of Regosols (min:58;max:1298) Percentiles selected representing the frequency of the elevation values for the Regosols class Percentiles (m) Figure 5 - Illustration of the configuration of an ANN showing the input maps, layer nodes and output map Predicted soil classes