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

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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