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Table 3 D-S model parameters

From: A novel method for mapping village-scale outdoor resting microhabitats of the primary African malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae

Parameter

Land cover feature

Variant

Function

C-breaking point (m)

D-breaking point (m)

Wetlands

Wetlands

Decreasing

Linear

0

77.5

Dense vegetation near open water*

Open water

Decreasing

Sigmoidal

0

569.75

Dense vegetation**

Decreasing

Linear

0

17.5

  1. Land cover feature describes the land cover that has been extracted from the classified image for the creation of the parameter. C-breaking point refers to the distance from the land cover at which the fuzzy value begins to drop from 1 down to a value of 0 with that distance indicated by breaking point D. The decreasing variant described that the fuzzy value approached 0 rather than 1. The function refers to what method of slope was used to create the fuzzy layer
  2. * Parameter relied on two separate fuzzy layers overlaid through multiplication
  3. ** User-defined linear relationship, where the maximum predictive value was set at 0.50