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Improving the prediction accuracy of river inflow using two data pre-processing techniques coupled with data-driven

Hafiza Mamona Nazir1, Ijaz Hussain1, Muhammad Faisal2,3

  • 1Department of Statistics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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|December 25, 2019
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Summary

A new hybrid model combining Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) with Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) and Empirical Bayes Threshold (EBT) significantly improves river inflow prediction accuracy. This advanced method enhances water resource management and power generation by providing more reliable non-linear time series forecasts.

Keywords:
Data-driven modelsEmpirical Mode DecompositionEnsemble Empirical Mode DecompositionVariational Mode Decomposition

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Area of Science:

  • Hydrology and Water Resource Management
  • Signal Processing and Time Series Analysis
  • Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning

Background:

  • Accurate river inflow prediction is crucial for effective water resource management and optimizing power generation systems.
  • River inflow data often exhibits noise and multi-scale characteristics, posing significant challenges for traditional predictive models.
  • Existing decomposition techniques like Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Ensemble EMD (EEMD) have limitations in handling noisy and complex hydrological data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel hybrid model for enhanced river inflow prediction.
  • To address the complexities of noise and multi-scale features in river inflow time series data.
  • To demonstrate the superiority of the proposed model over existing methods for hydrological forecasting.

Main Methods:

  • Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) was applied for initial data denoising.
  • Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) decomposed the denoised data into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) across different frequency scales.
  • Empirical Bayes Threshold (EBT) was used to smooth non-linear IMFs, followed by Support Vector Machine (SVM) for prediction of each IMF.
  • An ensemble approach combined the individual IMF predictions to generate the final river inflow forecast.

Main Results:

  • The proposed SSA-VMD-EBT-SVM hybrid model demonstrated superior performance compared to SSA-VMD-SVM, VMD-SVM, and various EMD-based models (EMD-SVM, SSA-EMD-SVM, EEMD-SVM, SSA-EEMD-SVM).
  • Performance was evaluated using Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), with the proposed model achieving the best results.
  • The model was validated using daily river inflow data from four stations in the Indus River Basin, Pakistan.

Conclusions:

  • The SSA-VMD-EBT-SVM hybrid model offers a robust and accurate solution for river inflow prediction.
  • This approach effectively handles noise and multi-scale characteristics inherent in hydrological time series data.
  • The model holds significant potential for practical applications in water resource management and power generation systems.