Investigation of evolutionary feature subset selection in multi-temporal datasets for harmful algal bloom detection

Abstract

In the present study we investigate the evolutionary feature subset selection using wrapper based genetic algorithms on Multi-temporal datasets. Feature subset selection helps in reducing the original feature dimension and also yields high performance. The evolutionary strategy attains a global optimum by reducing the computations iteratively and by traversing intelligently in the entire feature space. This method gave a very high performance improvement up to 0.97 kappa accuracy with a best reduced feature dimension for harmful algal bloom detection.