Combining the Fisher Feature Extraction and Support Vector Machine Methods to Identify the Water Inrush Source: A Case Study of the Wuhai Mining Area

Abstract

Discriminating the source of water inrush accurately and efficiently is necessary for water control in the coal mining industry. We combined the Fisher feature extraction and support vector machine (SVM) methods and applied this new model to the Wuhai mining area. The method extracts features from the raw data and integrated SVM, and synthetically considers the influence of geographical factors. Cross-analysis was tested 100 times, which arbitrarily selected 12 samples for the prediction and discrimination process. The results indicate that this new combined model of linear dimension reduction and non-linear dimension elevation was more accurate and efficient in discriminating water inrush sources than the traditional SVM model. Moreover, by reducing the penalty term of SVM model, we analyzed the correlation among the aquifers. We concluded that aquifers II and IV correlated strongly with each other, and that aquifer III was poorly connected with the other aquifers.