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However, it is uncertain to what extent remote sensing data can provide an accurate assessment of these changes. Therefore, a new framework is implemented in this work for predicting the underground water level using remote sensing images. Generally, the water level is defined into five levels: Critical, Overexploited, Safe, Saline, and Semi-critical, based on water quantity. In this manuscript, the remote sensing images were acquired from remote sensing images. At first, Wiener filtering was employed for preprocessing. Secondly, the Vegetation Indexes (VI) (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI), Infrared index (IRI), Radar Vegetation Index (RVI)), and statistical features (entropy, Root Mean Square (RMS), Skewness, and Kurtosis) were extracted from the preprocessed remote sensing images. Then, the extracted features were combined as a novel hydro index, which was fed to the Ensemble Classifier (EC): Neural Networks (NN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and improved Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) models for underground water level prediction in the remote sensing images. The obtained results prove the efficacy of the proposed framework by using different performance measures. The results shows that the False Positive Rate (FPR) of the proposed EC model is 0.0083, which is better than that of existing methods. On the other hand, the proposed EC model has a high accuracy of 0.90, which is superior to the existing traditional models: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network, Na\u00efve Bayes (NB), Random Forest (RF), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), and Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (Bi-GRU).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15082015","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,12]],"date-time":"2023-04-12T01:35:08Z","timestamp":1681263308000},"page":"2015","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Underground Water Level Prediction in Remote Sensing Images Using Improved Hydro Index Value with Ensemble Classifier"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4671-6827","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrzej","family":"Stateczny","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geodesy, Gdansk University of Technology, 80232 Gdansk, Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3700-0667","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sujatha Canavoy","family":"Narahari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad 501301, India"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5524-5983","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Padmavathi","family":"Vurubindi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad 500075, India"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5290-6643","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nirmala S.","family":"Guptha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of CSE\u2014Artificial Intelligence, Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bengaluru 562157, India"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9963-3611","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kalyanapu","family":"Srinivas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vaagdevi Engineering College, Warangal 506005, India"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"989","DOI":"10.1007\/s12524-019-00961-3","article-title":"Allocating Underground Dam Sites Using Remote Sensing and GIS Case Study on the Southwestern Plain of Tehran Province, Iran","volume":"47","author":"Fathi","year":"2019","journal-title":"J. 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