With a buzz the drone lifts off into the air, whizzing into the tree canopy with a digital camera strapped onboard. Its mission: record the progression of autumn colors in the trees. Yellow, gold, orange red: they all have meaning. So does green. For researcherStephen Klosterman, a drone...
Each tree is considered to be a “weak” regressor performance-wise but in combination, they create an ensemble that can outperform individual regressors. As the final prediction (AGB in our case), the average of the individual predictions of all of the decision trees in the forest is used....