A bagging ensemble combining random forest and multilayer perceptron improved landscape ecological vulnerability mapping for riverbank erosion, reaching 0.97 AUC and enabling targeted land management for disaster risk reduction.
On August 15, 2026, a peer-reviewed study reported a hybrid ensemble machine learning framework for assessing landscape ecological vulnerability to riverbank erosion. Using random forest, multilayer perceptron and bagging classifiers with multicollinearity-selected environmental and geomorphological parameters, the bagging ensemble achieved 0.97 AUC and 0.91 accuracy, mapping over half the area into high or very high vulnerability zones in Bihar and West Bengal.
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Updated Aug 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0807
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