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The weights of evidence, a quantitative method for combining evidence in support of a hypothesis, is commonly used in pattern based models. It enables mapping the probability of the occurrence of a certain event such as, for example, a land cover change, a wildfire or a landslide using a map of the occurence of this event and ancillary data. In this technical note, the computing of the weights of evidence and the probability is presented.
See Chap. 2 about calibration.
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Mas, J. (2018). Weights of Evidence. In: Camacho Olmedo, M., Paegelow, M., Mas, JF., Escobar, F. (eds) Geomatic Approaches for Modeling Land Change Scenarios. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60801-3_31
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