Suspended Sediment Concentration Prediction Using Deep Learning Across the Contiguous United States

Suspended Sediment Concentration Prediction Using Deep Learning Across the Contiguous United States
Author: Piyaphat Chaemchuen
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
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To reconcile the need to sustain river communities, water quality, and ecosystem services against the needs for water supply, daily usage, and power generation, to name a few, extensive understanding and accurate sediment estimates are required. However, sediment's nonlinearity and complex hysteresis characteristics make sediment prediction challenging. Furthermore, most of the past studies have focused solely on a local scale and simply ignored human-induced disturbances, land cover status, geological properties, etc. There lacked a systematic way to predict sediment contributions at large scales and high accuracy. This study developed models based on long short-term memory (LSTM) deep networks to predict SSC over 377 sites across the Contiguous United States (CONUS) with hydrometeorological forcing datasets from the DAYMET, Daily Surface Weather, and Climatological Summaries (Jan 1980 -- Dec 2019), streamflow from USGS, United States Geological Survey, sediment-related static attributes from GAGES-II, Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow or non-sediment-related static attributes (simulated random vectors) as inputs. The model has been trained either basin by basin (called the local model) or for the entire CONUS (call the Whole-CONUS model) with the optimal period to cope with data availability and variations of each basin. The local models for 377 sites across the CONUS show much superior prediction performance compared to the Whole-CONUS model, in terms of a median of the Nash-Sutcliffe Error (NSE), Pearson's Correlation Coefficient (R), Coefficient of Determination (R2), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE, [mg/L]), and Bias [mg/L] of all sites equal to 0.687, 0.868, 0.727, 67.295, 1.379 respectively in testing. The result from the Whole-CONUS from all sites training (377 sites) with sediment-related attributes shows relatively lower statistical metrics (0.596, 0.806, 0.645, 79.303, and -3.403. for Nash-Sutcliffe Error (NSE), Pearson's Correlation Coefficient (R), Coefficient of Determination (R2), Root Mean Squared Error, and Bias respectively) and with random vector attributes ((0.508, 0.788, 0.621, 92.186, and -4.507. for Nash-Sutcliffe Error (NSE), Pearson's Correlation Coefficient (R), Coefficient of Determination (R2), Root Mean Squared Error, and Bias respectively). For ungauged site experiment, the Whole-CONUS with 284 training sites perform a satisfying performance in Suspended Sediment Concentration prediction with a 0.591, 0.810, 0.651, 84.598, and -1.669 for Nash-Sutcliffe Error (NSE), Pearson's Correlation Coefficient (R), Coefficient of Determination (R2), Root Mean Squared Error, and Bias respectively. With a Whole-CONUS that has been trained with 284 basins, it can predict the 93-ungauged sites with satisfactory performance (0.521, 0.865, 0.749, 79.129, and -0.211 for Nash-Sutcliffe Error (NSE), Pearson's Correlation Coefficient (R), Coefficient of Determination (R2), Root Mean Squared Error, and Bias) The results from this study suggest that on gauged sites, the locally-trained LSTM model is the best approach to estimate the SSC time series. In the ungauged sites, the Whole-CONUS can be considered an acceptable approach for expanding the availability of SSC data. The Whole-CONUS model has been trained either with sediment-related or with non-sediment-related attributes higher overall performance when the model has been trained with the sediment-related attributes. The Whole-CONUS model captures the (imperfect) relationships between sediment-related attributes and sediment dynamics, exposing the spatial heterogeneity of SSC characteristics (higher overall performance from the Local-CONUS model compared to the Whole-CONUS model) that require more descriptors to overcome the interconnectedness and the heterogeneous characteristics. Future work should seek these critical inputs to improve the Whole-CONUS model, allowing us to simulate sediment at large scales with high accuracy.

Suspended Sediment Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networds and Local Hydrometeorological Data

Suspended Sediment Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networds and Local Hydrometeorological Data
Author: Scott D. Hamshaw
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Total Pages: 214
Release: 2014
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Continuous turbidity monitoring enhances our understanding of river dynamics by offering high-resolution, temporal measurements to better quantify the total sediment loading occurring during and between storm events. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), that mimic learning patterns of the human brain, have been effective at predicting flow in small, ungauged rivers using local climate data. This study advances this technology by using an ANN algorithm known as a counter-propagation neural network (CPN) to predict discharge and suspended sediment in small, ungauged streams.

Multisensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Environmental Remote Sensing

Multisensor Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Environmental Remote Sensing
Author: Ni-Bin Chang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2018-02-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1498774342

In the last few years the scientific community has realized that obtaining a better understanding of interactions between natural systems and the man-made environment across different scales demands more research efforts in remote sensing. An integrated Earth system observatory that merges surface-based, air-borne, space-borne, and even underground sensors with comprehensive and predictive capabilities indicates promise for revolutionizing the study of global water, energy, and carbon cycles as well as land use and land cover changes. The aim of this book is to present a suite of relevant concepts, tools, and methods of integrated multisensor data fusion and machine learning technologies to promote environmental sustainability. The process of machine learning for intelligent feature extraction consists of regular, deep, and fast learning algorithms. The niche for integrating data fusion and machine learning for remote sensing rests upon the creation of a new scientific architecture in remote sensing science that is designed to support numerical as well as symbolic feature extraction managed by several cognitively oriented machine learning tasks at finer scales. By grouping a suite of satellites with similar nature in platform design, data merging may come to help for cloudy pixel reconstruction over the space domain or concatenation of time series images over the time domain, or even both simultaneously. Organized in 5 parts, from Fundamental Principles of Remote Sensing; Feature Extraction for Remote Sensing; Image and Data Fusion for Remote Sensing; Integrated Data Merging, Data Reconstruction, Data Fusion, and Machine Learning; to Remote Sensing for Environmental Decision Analysis, the book will be a useful reference for graduate students, academic scholars, and working professionals who are involved in the study of Earth systems and the environment for a sustainable future. The new knowledge in this book can be applied successfully in many areas of environmental science and engineering.

Fluvial Processes in Motion

Fluvial Processes in Motion
Author: Scott D. Hamshaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2018
Genre: Photogrammetry
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Excessive erosion and fine sediment delivery to river corridors and receiving waters degrade aquatic habitat, add to nutrient loading, and impact infrastructure. Understanding the sources and movement of sediment within watersheds is critical for assessing ecosystem health and developing management plans to protect natural and human systems. As our changing climate continues to cause shifts in hydrological regimes (e.g., increased precipitation and streamflow in the northeast U.S.), the development of tools to better understand sediment dynamics takes on even greater importance. In this research, advanced geomatics and machine learning are applied to improve the (1) monitoring of streambank erosion, (2) understanding of event sediment dynamics, and (3) prediction of sediment loading using meteorological data as inputs. Streambank movement is an integral part of geomorphic changes along river corridors and also a significant source of fine sediment to receiving waters. Advances in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and photogrammetry provide opportunities for rapid and economical quantification of streambank erosion and deposition at variable scales. We assess the performance of UAS-based photogrammetry to capture streambank topography and quantify bank movement. UAS data were compared to terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) and GPS surveying from Vermont streambank sites that featured a variety of bank conditions and vegetation. Cross-sectional analysis of UAS and TLS data revealed that the UAS reliably captured the bank surface and was able to quantify the net change in bank area where movement occurred. Although it was necessary to consider overhanging bank profiles and vegetation, UAS-based photogrammetry showed significant promise for capturing bank topography and movement at fine resolutions in a flexible and efficient manner. This study also used a new machine-learning tool to improve the analysis of sediment dynamics using three years of high-resolution suspended sediment data collected in the Mad River watershed. A restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), a type of artificial neural network (ANN), was used to classify individual storm events based on the visual hysteresis patterns present in the suspended sediment-discharge data. The work expanded the classification scheme typically used for hysteresis analysis. The results provided insights into the connectivity and sources of sediment within the Mad River watershed and its tributaries. A recurrent counterpropagation network (rCPN) was also developed to predict suspended sediment discharge at ungauged locations using only local meteorological data as inputs. The rCPN captured the nonlinear relationships between meteorological data and suspended sediment discharge, and outperformed the traditional sediment rating curve approach. The combination of machine-learning tools for analyzing storm-event dynamics and estimating loading at ungauged locations in a river network provides a robust method for estimating sediment production from catchments that informs watershed management.

Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences

Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences
Author: Gustau Camps-Valls
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2021-08-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119646162

DEEP LEARNING FOR THE EARTH SCIENCES Explore this insightful treatment of deep learning in the field of earth sciences, from four leading voices Deep learning is a fundamental technique in modern Artificial Intelligence and is being applied to disciplines across the scientific spectrum; earth science is no exception. Yet, the link between deep learning and Earth sciences has only recently entered academic curricula and thus has not yet proliferated. Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences delivers a unique perspective and treatment of the concepts, skills, and practices necessary to quickly become familiar with the application of deep learning techniques to the Earth sciences. The book prepares readers to be ready to use the technologies and principles described in their own research. The distinguished editors have also included resources that explain and provide new ideas and recommendations for new research especially useful to those involved in advanced research education or those seeking PhD thesis orientations. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: An introduction to deep learning for classification purposes, including advances in image segmentation and encoding priors, anomaly detection and target detection, and domain adaptation An exploration of learning representations and unsupervised deep learning, including deep learning image fusion, image retrieval, and matching and co-registration Practical discussions of regression, fitting, parameter retrieval, forecasting and interpolation An examination of physics-aware deep learning models, including emulation of complex codes and model parametrizations Perfect for PhD students and researchers in the fields of geosciences, image processing, remote sensing, electrical engineering and computer science, and machine learning, Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences will also earn a place in the libraries of machine learning and pattern recognition researchers, engineers, and scientists.