About the Authors

Jie Dou

songxuan@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (XS); doujie@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (JD)

Affiliation Department of Natural Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Dieu Tien Bui

Affiliation Geographic Information System Group, Department of Business Administration and Computer Science, Telemark University College, Telemark, Norway

Ali P. Yunus

Affiliation Department of Natural Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Kun Jia

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Xuan Song

songxuan@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (XS); doujie@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (JD)

Affiliation Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Inge Revhaug

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås Norway

Huan Xia

Affiliation Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, China

Zhongfan Zhu

Affiliation College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD. Performed the experiments: JD DTB APY. Analyzed the data: JD DTB APY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD DTB APY. Wrote the paper: JD DTB APY KJ XS IR HX. Collected data and organized the manuscript: JD DTB APY. Improved the quality of the manuscript: KJ XS IR HX ZZ.