This paper presents an procedure for purifying training data sets (i.e., past occurrences of slope failures) for inverse estimation on unobserved trigger factors of "different types of simultaneous slope failures"...This paper presents an procedure for purifying training data sets (i.e., past occurrences of slope failures) for inverse estimation on unobserved trigger factors of "different types of simultaneous slope failures". Due to difficulties in pixel-by-pixel observations of trigger factors, as one of the measures, the authors had proposed an inverse analysis algorithm on trigger factors based on SEM (structural equation modeling). Through a measurement equation, the trigger factor is inversely estimated, and a TFI (trigger factor influence) map can be also produced. As a subsequence subject, a purification procedure of training data set should be constructed to improve the accuracy of TFI map which depends on the representativeness of given training data sets of different types of slope failures. The proposed procedure resamples the matched pixels between original groups of past slope failures (i.e., surface slope failures, deep-seated slope failures, landslides) and classified three groups by K-means clustering for all pixels corresponding to those slope failures. For all cases of three types of slope failures, the improvement of success rates with respect to resampled training data sets was confirmed. As a final outcome, the differences between TFI maps produced by using original and resampled training data sets, respectively, are delineated on a DIF map (difference map) which is useful for analyzing trigger factor influence in terms of "risky- and safe-side assessment" sub-areas with respect to "different types of simultaneous slope failures".展开更多
文摘This paper presents an procedure for purifying training data sets (i.e., past occurrences of slope failures) for inverse estimation on unobserved trigger factors of "different types of simultaneous slope failures". Due to difficulties in pixel-by-pixel observations of trigger factors, as one of the measures, the authors had proposed an inverse analysis algorithm on trigger factors based on SEM (structural equation modeling). Through a measurement equation, the trigger factor is inversely estimated, and a TFI (trigger factor influence) map can be also produced. As a subsequence subject, a purification procedure of training data set should be constructed to improve the accuracy of TFI map which depends on the representativeness of given training data sets of different types of slope failures. The proposed procedure resamples the matched pixels between original groups of past slope failures (i.e., surface slope failures, deep-seated slope failures, landslides) and classified three groups by K-means clustering for all pixels corresponding to those slope failures. For all cases of three types of slope failures, the improvement of success rates with respect to resampled training data sets was confirmed. As a final outcome, the differences between TFI maps produced by using original and resampled training data sets, respectively, are delineated on a DIF map (difference map) which is useful for analyzing trigger factor influence in terms of "risky- and safe-side assessment" sub-areas with respect to "different types of simultaneous slope failures".