Investigating the behaviour of radial basis function networks in regression and classification of geospatial data

Abstract

This work investigates learning and generalisation capabilities of Radial Basis Function Networks used to solve function regression and classification tasks in the environmental context. In particular RBFN is applied to solve the problem of snow cover thickness estimation in which critical aspects such as minimal training condition, weak pattern description and inconsistency among data arise. The RBFN shows good performances and high flexibility in coping with regression, hard and soft classifications which are complementary tasks in the analysis of complex environmental phenomena. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.