TreeBasedKernels: an R-function for obtaining similarity kernels based on tree-based ensemble learners

Abstract

This research was partially supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation via the STARS Grant Agreement (1094229-2014). We wish to express our gratitude to all the STARS partners and, in particular, to the ICRISAT-led team for organizing and collecting the required field data in Mali and to the STARS ITC team for pre-processing the WorldView-2 images. We would also like to acknowledge the European Commission Erasmus Mundus (SALAM2) for providing financial support for this research via a PhD grant to Ms. Azar Zafari. The dataset and code in this repository are related to following journal papers and Ph.D. thesis