An Explainable Ensemble Learning Framework for Crop Classification with Optimized Feature Pyramids and Deep Networks
Agriculture is increasingly challenged by climate change, soil degradation, and resource depletion, and hence requires advanced data-driven crop classification and recommendation solutions. This work presents an explainable ensemble learning paradigm that fuses optimized feature pyramids, deep networks, self-attention mechanisms, and residual networks for bolstering crop suitability predictions based on soil characteristics (e.g., pH, nitrogen, potassium) and climatic conditions (e.g., temperature, rainfall). With a dataset comprising 3,867 instances and 29 features from the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency and NASA, the paradigm leverages preprocessing methods such as label encoding, outlier removal using IQR, normalization through StandardScaler, and SMOTE for balancing classes. A range of machine learning models such as Logistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machines, Decision Trees, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and a new Relative Error Support Vector Machine are compared, with hyperparameter tuning through Grid Search and cross-validation. The suggested "Final Ensemble" meta-ensemble design outperforms with 98.80% accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, compared to individual models such as K-Nearest Neighbors (95.56% accuracy). Explainable AI methods, such as SHAP and permutation importance, offer actionable insights, highlighting critical features such as soil pH, nitrogen, and zinc. The paradigm addresses the gap between intricate ML models and actionable agricultural decision-making, fostering sustainability and trust in AI-powered recommendations
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