scholarly journals Advanced Machine Learning Optimized by The Genetic Algorithm in Ionospheric Models Using Long-Term Multi-Instrument Observations

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Li ◽  
Dongsheng Zhao ◽  
Changyong He ◽  
Andong Hu ◽  
Kefei Zhang

The ionospheric delay is of paramount importance to radio communication, satellite navigation and positioning. It is necessary to predict high-accuracy ionospheric peak parameters for single frequency receivers. In this study, the state-of-the-art artificial neural network (ANN) technique optimized by the genetic algorithm is used to develop global ionospheric models for predicting foF2 and hmF2. The models are based on long-term multiple measurements including ionospheric peak frequency model (GIPFM) and global ionospheric peak height model (GIPHM). Predictions of the GIPFM and GIPHM are compared with the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model in 2009 and 2013 respectively. This comparison shows that the root-mean-square errors (RMSEs) of GIPFM are 0.82 MHz and 0.71 MHz in 2013 and 2009, respectively. This result is about 20%–35% lower than that of IRI. Additionally, the corresponding hmF2 median errors of GIPHM are 20% to 30% smaller than that of IRI. Furthermore, the ANN models present a good capability to capture the global or regional ionospheric spatial-temporal characteristics, e.g., the equatorial ionization anomaly and Weddell Sea anomaly. The study shows that the ANN-based model has a better agreement to reference value than the IRI model, not only along the Greenwich meridian, but also on a global scale. The approach proposed in this study has the potential to be a new three-dimensional electron density model combined with the inclusion of the upcoming Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC-2) data.

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 271-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
VÍCTOR SÁNCHEZ-ANGUIX ◽  
SOLEDAD VALERO ◽  
ANA GARCÍA-FORNES

An agent-based Virtual Organization is a complex entity where dynamic collections of agents agree to share resources in order to accomplish a global goal or offer a complex service. An important problem for the performance of the Virtual Organization is the distribution of the agents across the computational resources. The final distribution should provide a good load balancing for the organization. In this article, a genetic algorithm is applied to calculate a proper distribution across hosts in an agent-based Virtual Organization. Additionally, an abstract multi-agent system architecture which provides infrastructure for Virtual Organization distribution is introduced. The developed genetic solution employs an elitist crossover operator where one of the children inherits the most promising genetic material from the parents with higher probability. In order to validate the genetic proposal, the designed genetic algorithm has been successfully compared to several heuristics in different scenarios.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1603-1619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonios Alexiou ◽  
Christos Bouras ◽  
Vasileios Kokkinos ◽  
Andreas Papazois ◽  
George Tsichritzis

GPS Solutions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrià Rovira-Garcia ◽  
Deimos Ibáñez-Segura ◽  
Raul Orús-Perez ◽  
José Miguel Juan ◽  
Jaume Sanz ◽  
...  

Abstract Single-frequency users of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) must correct for the ionospheric delay. These corrections are available from global ionospheric models (GIMs). Therefore, the accuracy of the GIM is important because the unmodeled or incorrectly part of ionospheric delay contributes to the positioning error of GNSS-based positioning. However, the positioning error of receivers located at known coordinates can be used to infer the accuracy of GIMs in a simple manner. This is why assessment of GIMs by means of the position domain is often used as an alternative to assessments in the ionospheric delay domain. The latter method requires accurate reference ionospheric values obtained from a network solution and complex geodetic modeling. However, evaluations using the positioning error method present several difficulties, as evidenced in recent works, that can lead to inconsistent results compared to the tests using the ionospheric delay domain. We analyze the reasons why such inconsistencies occur, applying both methodologies. We have computed the position of 34 permanent stations for the entire year of 2014 within the last Solar Maximum. The positioning tests have been done using code pseudoranges and carrier-phase leveled (CCL) measurements. We identify the error sources that make it difficult to distinguish the part of the positioning error that is attributable to the ionospheric correction: the measurement noise, pseudorange multipath, evaluation metric, and outliers. Once these error sources are considered, we obtain equivalent results to those found in the ionospheric delay domain assessments. Accurate GIMs can provide single-frequency navigation positioning at the decimeter level using CCL measurements and better positions than those obtained using the dual-frequency ionospheric-free combination of pseudoranges. Finally, some recommendations are provided for further studies of ionospheric models using the position domain method.


Author(s):  
B. Li ◽  
F. Huang ◽  
S. Chang ◽  
H. Qi ◽  
H. Zhai

Indentifying the spatio-temporal patterns of ecosystem services supply and demand and the driving forces is of great significance to the regional ecological security and sustainable socio-economic development. Due to long term and high-intensity development, the ecological environment in central and southern Liaoning urban agglomerations has been greatly destroyed thereafter has restricted sustainable development in this region. Based on Landsat ETM and OLI images, land use of this urban agglomeration in 2005, 2010 and 2015 was extracted. The integrative index of multiple-ecosystem services (IMES) was used to quantify the supply (IMESs), demand (IMESd) and balance (IMESb) of multiple-ecosystem services, The spatial patterns of ecosystem services and its dynamics for the period of 2005–2015 were revealed. The multiple regression and stepwise regression analysis were used to explore relationships between ecosystem services and socioeconomic factors. The results showed that the IMESs of the region increased by 2.93 %, whereas IMESd dropped 38 %. The undersupplied area was reduced to 2. The IMESs and IMESb were mainly negatively correlated with gross domestic product (GDP), population density, foreign investment and industrial output, while GDP per capita and the number of teachers had significant positive impacts on ecosystem services supply. The positive correlation between IMESd and GDP, population density and foreign investment were found. The ecosystem services models were established. Supply and balance of multiple-ecosystem services were positively correlated with population density, but the demand was the opposite. The results can provide some reference value for the coordinately economic and ecological development in the study area.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2083 (3) ◽  
pp. 032010
Author(s):  
Rong Ma

Abstract The traditional BP neural network is difficult to achieve the target effect in the prediction of waterway cargo turnover. In order to improve the accuracy of waterway cargo turnover forecast, a waterway cargo turnover forecast model was created based on genetic algorithm to optimize neural network parameters. The genetic algorithm overcomes the trap that the general iterative method easily falls into, that is, the “endless loop” phenomenon that occurs when the local minimum is small, and the calculation time is small, and the robustness is high. Using genetic algorithm optimized BP neural network to predict waterway cargo turnover, and the empirical analysis of the waterway cargo turnover forecast is carried out. The results obtained show that the neural network waterway optimized by genetic algorithm has a higher accuracy than the traditional BP neural network for predicting waterway cargo turnover, and the optimization model can long-term analysis of the characteristics of waterway cargo turnover changes shows that the prediction effect is far better than traditional neural networks.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Flores ◽  
Faraz Idrees ◽  
Philippe Moussay ◽  
Robert I. Wielgosz

<p>The long-term monitoring of reactive gases, such as NO<sub>2</sub>, provides significant challenges for the development of gas standards that can demonstrate fit-for-purpose stability and accuracy.  Over the last fifteen years the BIPM’s primary gas facility for the dynamic production of mixtures of nitrogen dioxide in nitrogen, operating over the range (1 μmol/mol to 15 μmol/mol) has been shown to operate with a relative standards uncertainty of 0.4%. The system is based on continuous weighing of a permeation tube and on the accurate impurity quantification and correction of the gas mixtures using FT-IR.</p><p>The operation of the system has been demonstrated in two international comparisons organized by the CCQM Working Group on Gas Analysis (CCQM-GAWG), in 2009 and 2018, with the former demonstrating the requirement to correct for HNO<sub>3</sub> impurities in gas standards produced in cylinders, and the more recent, the potential for non-linear decay in NO<sub>2</sub> concentration in gas cylinder standards in the first 100 to 150 days following their production.</p><p>The CCQM-K74 (2009/2010) was organized, with all cylinders prepared by the one NMI (VSL) with the same surface treatment and characterized for stability and with reference values provided by the BIPM dynamic reference facility. The initial comparison identified small decay rates in the circulated standards, accounted for by the addition of an uncertainty to the reference value, and calculated to have been no more than 0.1 nmol/mol per day loss of NO<sub>2</sub>. However, the 2009 comparison did not examine standards maintained by individual participating institutes directly. The protocol of the CCQM-K74.2018 comparison, was modified so that the standards prepared by participating institutes (two per participant), were all directly measured at the BIPM against its dynamic reference facility. The modified protocol, although technically more challenging, has allowed the different decay rates in different cylinder preparations from different institutes to be identified, as well as the time dependence of these days rates.</p><p>The work has highlighted the challenges in NO<sub>2</sub> standard development, and that fit-for-purpose standards can be obtained following appropriate protocols. Further development of these protocols is the focus of a number of research programmes, for example  METNO2 and MetroPEMS projects within the EMPIR programmes. Further activities at the BIPM facility are focused on validating the performance of NO<sub>2</sub> dynamic reference systems below 1 μmol/mol and into the nmol/mol range, with the comparison of different dynamic reference systems, in support of future international comparisons and knowledge transfer activities.</p>


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