New Learning Approach for Unsupervised Neural Networks Model with Application to Agriculture Field

An accurate and lower cost hybrid machine learning algorithm based on a combination of Kohonen-Self Organizing Map (SOM) and Gram-Schmidt (GSHM) algorithm was proposed, to enhance the crop yield prediction and to increase the agricultural production. The combination of GSHM and SOM allows to withdraw the most informative components about our data, by overcoming correlation issues between input data prior to the training process. The improved hybrid algorithm was trained firstly on data that have a correlation problem, and it was compared with another hybrid model based on SOM and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), secondly, it was trained using selected soil parameters related to the atmosphere (e.g. pH, nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, depth, temperature, and rainfall). A comparative study with the standard SOM was conducted. The improved Kohonen-Self Organizing Map when applied to correlated data, demonstrated better results in terms of classification accuracy (8/8), and rapidity = 0.015s compared to a classification accuracy (7/8) and a rapidity = 97,828 s using SOM combined with PCA. Moreover, the proposed algorithm resulted in better results for crop prediction in terms of maximum iteration number of 675, mean error ≤0.00022, and rapidity = 18.422s versus an iteration number of 729, mean error ≤ 0.000916 and rapidity= 23.707s with the standard SOM. The proposed algorithm allowed us to overcome correlation issues, and to improve the classification, learning process, and rapidity, with the potential to apply for predicting crop yield in the agricultural field.

@article{Sara2020,
  title     = {New Learning Approach for Unsupervised Neural Networks Model with Application to Agriculture Field},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {11},
  number    = {5},
  year      = {2020},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Belattar Sara and Abdoun Otman and El khatir Haimoudi},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110548},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110548}
}