Land cover change prediction with a new theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning
Samuel Corgne, Laurence Hubert‐Moy, Jean Dezert, G. Mereier · 2003
The spatial prediction of land cover ot the Jeld scale in winter appears useful for the issue of bare soils reduction in agricultural intensive regions. High variability of the factors that motivate the land cover changes between each winter involves integration of uncertainty in the modelling process. Fusion process with Dempster-Shafer Theoiy (DST) presents some limits in generating errors in decision making when the degree of conflict, between the sources of evidence that suppor? land cover hypotheses, becomes important. This paper focuses on the application of Dezeri-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) method to the fusion of multiple land-use attributes for land cover prediction purpose. Results are discussed and compared with prediction levels achieved with DST. Through this $rst application of the Dezert- Smarandache Theory, we show an example of this new approach abiliry to solve some of practical problems where the Dempster-Shafer Theory usuolly foils.