The "Forest Cover Type Prediction" from kaggle

The study area includes four wilderness areas located in the Roosevelt National Forest of northern Colorado. Each observation is a 30m x 30m patch. You are asked to predict an integer classification for the forest cover type. The seven types are:

1. Spruce/Fir
2. Lodgepole Pine
3. Ponderosa Pine
4. Cottonwood/Willow
5. Aspen
6. Douglas-fir
7. Krummholz

The training set (15120 observations) contains both features and the Cover_Type. The test set contains only the features.

You must predict the Cover_Type for every row in the test set (565892 observations).

Data Fields

• Elevation - Elevation in meters
• Aspect - Aspect in degrees azimuth
• Slope - Slope in degrees
• Horizontal_Distance_To_Hydrology - Horz Dist to nearest surface water features
• Vertical_Distance_To_Hydrology - Vert Dist to nearest surface water features
• Horizontal_Distance_To_Roadways - Horz Dist to nearest roadway
• Hillshade_9am (0 to 255 index) - Hillshade index at 9am, summer solstice
• Hillshade_Noon (0 to 255 index) - Hillshade index at noon, summer solstice
• Hillshade_3pm (0 to 255 index) - Hillshade index at 3pm, summer solstice
• Horizontal_Distance_To_Fire_Points - Horz Dist to nearest wildfire ignition points
• Wilderness_Area (4 binary columns, 0 = absence or 1 = presence) - Wilderness area designation
• Soil_Type (40 binary columns, 0 = absence or 1 = presence) - Soil Type designation
• Cover_Type (7 types, integers 1 to 7) - Forest Cover Type designation

The wilderness areas are:

1. Rawah Wilderness Area
2. Neota Wilderness Area
3. Comanche Peak Wilderness Area
4. Cache la Poudre Wilderness Area

The soil types are:

1. Cathedral family - Rock outcrop complex, extremely stony.
2. Vanet - Ratake families complex, very stony.
3. Haploborolis - Rock outcrop complex, rubbly.
4. Ratake family - Rock outcrop complex, rubbly.
5. Vanet family - Rock outcrop complex complex, rubbly.
6. Vanet - Wetmore families - Rock outcrop complex, stony.
7. Gothic family.
8. Supervisor - Limber families complex.
9. Troutville family, very stony.
10. Bullwark - Catamount families - Rock outcrop complex, rubbly.
11. Bullwark - Catamount families - Rock land complex, rubbly.
12. Legault family - Rock land complex, stony.
13. Catamount family - Rock land - Bullwark family complex, rubbly.
14. Pachic Argiborolis - Aquolis complex.
15. unspecified in the USFS Soil and ELU Survey.
16. Cryaquolis - Cryoborolis complex.
17. Gateview family - Cryaquolis complex.
18. Rogert family, very stony.
19. Typic Cryaquolis - Borohemists complex.
20. Typic Cryaquepts - Typic Cryaquolls complex.
21. Typic Cryaquolls - Leighcan family, till substratum complex.
22. Leighcan family, till substratum, extremely bouldery.
23. Leighcan family, till substratum - Typic Cryaquolls complex.
24. Leighcan family, extremely stony.
25. Leighcan family, warm, extremely stony.
26. Granile - Catamount families complex, very stony.
27. Leighcan family, warm - Rock outcrop complex, extremely stony.
28. Leighcan family - Rock outcrop complex, extremely stony.
29. Como - Legault families complex, extremely stony.
30. Como family - Rock land - Legault family complex, extremely stony.
31. Leighcan - Catamount families complex, extremely stony.
32. Catamount family - Rock outcrop - Leighcan family complex, extremely stony.
33. Leighcan - Catamount families - Rock outcrop complex, extremely stony.
34. Cryorthents - Rock land complex, extremely stony.
35. Cryumbrepts - Rock outcrop - Cryaquepts complex.
36. Bross family - Rock land - Cryumbrepts complex, extremely stony.
37. Rock outcrop - Cryumbrepts - Cryorthents complex, extremely stony.
38. Leighcan - Moran families - Cryaquolls complex, extremely stony.
39. Moran family - Cryorthents - Leighcan family complex, extremely stony.
40. Moran family - Cryorthents - Rock land complex, extremely stony.