An intelligent system based on kernel methods for crop yield prediction

  • Authors:
  • A. Majid Awan;Mohd. Noor Md. Sap

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Sci. & Information Systems, University Technology Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia;Faculty of Computer Sci. & Information Systems, University Technology Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • PAKDD'06 Proceedings of the 10th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents work on developing a software system for predicting crop yield from climate and plantation data. At the core of this system is a method for unsupervised partitioning of data for finding spatio-temporal patterns in climate data using kernel methods which offer strength to deal with complex data. For this purpose, a robust weighted kernel k-means algorithm incorporating spatial constraints is presented. The algorithm can effectively handle noise, outliers and auto-correlation in the spatial data, for effective and efficient data analysis, and thus can be used for predicting oil-palm yield by analyzing various factors affecting the yield.