Precision Agriculture is the application of state-of-the-art GPS technology in connection with site-specific, sensor-based treatment of the crop. It can also be described as a data-driven approach to agriculture, which is strongly connected with a number of data mining problems. One of those is also an inherently important task in agriculture: yield prediction. The question is: can a field's yield be predicted in-season using available geo-coded data sets? In the past, a number of approaches have been proposed towards this problem. Often, a broad variety of regression models for non-spatial data have been used, like regression trees, neural networks and support vector machines. But in a cross-validation learning approach, issues with the assumption of the data records' statistical independence keep emerging. Hence, the geographical location of data records should clearly be considered while establishing a regression model and assessing its predictive performance. This paper gives a short overview of the available data, points out in detail the main issue with the classical learning approaches and presents a novel spatial cross-validation technique to overcome the problems with the classical approach towards the aforementioned yield prediction task. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Ruß, G., & Brenning, A. (2010). Data mining in precision agriculture: Management of spatial information. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6178 LNAI, pp. 350–359). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14049-5_36
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