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Landslide susceptibility prediction based on a semi-supervised multiple-layer perceptron model

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Conventional supervised and unsupervised machine learning models used for landslide susceptibility prediction (LSP) have many drawbacks, such as an insufficient number of recorded landslide samples, and the subjective and random selection of non-landslide samples. To overcome these drawbacks, a semi-supervised multiple-layer perceptron (SSMLP) is innovatively proposed with several processes: (1) an initial landslide susceptibility map (LSM) is produced using the multiple-layer perceptron (MLP) based on the original recorded landslide samples and related environmental factors; (2) the initial LSM is respectively classified into five areas with very high, high, moderate, low and very low susceptible levels; (3) some reasonable grid units from the areas with very high susceptible level are selected as new landslide samples to expand the original landslide samples; (4) reasonable non-landslide samples are selected from the areas with very low susceptible level; and (5) the expanded landslide samples, reasonable selected non-landslide samples and related environmental factors are put into the MLP once again to predict the final LSM. The Xunwu County of Jiangxi Province in China is selected as the study area. Conventional supervised machine learning (i.e. MLP) and unsupervised machine learning (i.e. K-means clustering model) are selected for comparisons. The comparative results indicate that the SSMLP model has a considerably higher LSP performance than the MLP and K-means clustering in Xunwu County. The SSMLP model successfully addresses the drawbacks existed in the conventional machine learning for LSP.

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This research is funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41807285, 41867036 and 41972280); the National Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China (Nos. 20192BAB216034 and 20192BBG70078); the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019M652287); and the Jiangxi Provincial Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019KY08).

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  1. School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, China

    Faming Huang, Zhongshan Cao, Shui-Hua Jiang & Chuangbing Zhou

  2. ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

    Jinsong Huang

  3. Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Zizheng Guo

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Huang, F., Cao, Z., Jiang, SH. et al. Landslide susceptibility prediction based on a semi-supervised multiple-layer perceptron model. Landslides 17, 2919–2930 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-01473-9

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