一、问题描述
Random forests? Cover trees? Not so fast, computer nerds. We’re talking about the real thing.
In this competition you are asked to predict the forest cover type (the predominant kind of tree cover) from cartographic variables. The actual forest cover type for a given 30 x 30 meter cell was determined from US Forest Service (USFS) Region 2 Resource Information System data. Independent variables were then derived from data obtained from the US Geological Survey and USFS. The data is in raw form and contains binary columns of data for qualitative independent variables such as wilderness areas and soil type.
This study area includes four wilderness areas located in the Roosevelt National Forest of northern Colorado. These areas represent forests with minimal human-caused disturbances, so that existing forest cover types are more a result of ecological processes rather than forest management practices.
This competition originally ran in 2015. We are relaunching it as a kernels-only version here.
Acknowledgements
Kaggle is hosting this competition for the machine learning community to use for fun and practice. This dataset was provided by Jock A. Blackard and Colorado State University. We also thank the UCI machine learning repository for hosting the dataset. If you use the problem in publication, please cite:
Bache, K. & Lichman, M. (2013). UCI Machine Learning Repository. Irvine, CA: University of California, School of Information and Computer Science
