Multiclass Model for Agriculture development using Multivariate Statistical method
This work addresses crop classification for agriculture experts, but it is incremental as it extends an existing method to a multiclass setting.
The authors tackled the problem of multiclass crop classification for agriculture development by proposing an Improved Mahalanobis Taguchi System (IMTS) model, which achieved 100% accuracy, recall, and precision with a 0% error rate compared to traditional classifiers.
Mahalanobis taguchi system (MTS) is a multi-variate statistical method extensively used for feature selection and binary classification problems. The calculation of orthogonal array and signal-to-noise ratio in MTS makes the algorithm complicated when more number of factors are involved in the classification problem. Also the decision is based on the accuracy of normal and abnormal observations of the dataset. In this paper, a multiclass model using Improved Mahalanobis Taguchi System (IMTS) is proposed based on normal observations and Mahalanobis distance for agriculture development. Twenty-six input factors relevant to crop cultivation have been identified and clustered into six main factors for the development of the model. The multiclass model is developed with the consideration of the relative importance of the factors. An objective function is defined for the classification of three crops, namely paddy, sugarcane and groundnut. The classification results are verified against the results obtained from the agriculture experts working in the field. The proposed classifier provides 100% accuracy, recall, precision and 0% error rate when compared with other traditional classifier models.