Abstract
The purpose of my senior capstone project was to create a model to predict the track points of bald eagle flight paths over Lake Superior as over land or over water using weather data. A boosted tree model was built using the XGBoost package in R to predict the track points as over land or over water. Variable importance was investigated using SHAP values. The model may be useful for predicting the best location to build future offshore wind turbines in Lake Superior in the future.
College
College of Science & Engineering
Department
Mathematics & Statistics
Campus
Winona
First Advisor/Mentor
Silas Bergen
Start Date
4-19-2023 1:00 PM
End Date
4-19-2023 2:00 PM
Presentation Type
Poster Session
Format of Presentation or Performance
In-Person
Session
2a=1pm-2pm
Poster Number
38
Exploring Bald Eagle Track Data Over Lake Superior
The purpose of my senior capstone project was to create a model to predict the track points of bald eagle flight paths over Lake Superior as over land or over water using weather data. A boosted tree model was built using the XGBoost package in R to predict the track points as over land or over water. Variable importance was investigated using SHAP values. The model may be useful for predicting the best location to build future offshore wind turbines in Lake Superior in the future.
