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The goal of the VegOut tool is to provide accurate early warning drought prediction. VegOut integrates climate, oceanic, and satellite-based vegetation indicators to identify historical patterns between drought and vegetation conditions indices and predict future vegetation conditions based on these patterns at multiple time steps (2, 4 and 6-week outlooks). This paper evaluates different sets of data mining techniques and various climatic indices for providing the improved prediction accuracy to the VegOut tool.
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Harms, S., Tadesse, T., Wardlow, B. (2009). Algorithm and Feature Selection for VegOut: A Vegetation Condition Prediction Tool. In: Gama, J., Costa, V.S., Jorge, A.M., Brazdil, P.B. (eds) Discovery Science. DS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5808. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04747-3_11
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