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    Estimation of dew point temperature using SVM and ELM for humid and semi-arid regions of India
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd. michael.wagreich@univie.ac.at, 2018) Deka, P.C.; Patil, A.P.; Yeswanth Kumar, P.; Naganna, S.R.
    The dew point temperature is the temperature at which the moisture in the air begins to condense into dew or water droplets. The accurate estimation of the dew point temperature is very important as it controls the heat stress on humans, detects fluctuations of evaporation rates, and humidity trends. The dew point temperature is a significant parameter particularly required in various hydrological, climatological and agronomical related researches. This study proposes Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) models for the estimation of daily dew point temperature. The daily measured weather data (Wet bulb temperature, relative humidity, vapor pressure and dew point temperature) of humid and semi-arid regions of India were used for model development. The statistical indices, namely Mean Absolute Error, Root Mean Square Error, and Nash Sutcliffe Efficiency were adopted to evaluate the performances of these two models. The merit of the ELM model is evaluated against SVM technique in the estimation of dew point temperature. The proposed ELM models demonstrated much greater capability than the SVM models in the estimation of daily dew point temperature. © 2017 Indian Society for Hydraulics.
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    Dew Point temperature estimation: Application of artificial intelligence model integrated with nature-inspired optimization algorithms
    (MDPI AG indexing@mdpi.com Postfach Basel CH-4005, 2019) Naganna, S.R.; Deka, P.C.; Ghorbani, M.A.; Biazar, S.M.; Al-Ansari, N.; Yaseen, Z.M.
    Dew point temperature (DPT) is known to fluctuate in space and time regardless of the climatic zone considered. The accurate estimation of the DPT is highly significant for various applications of hydro and agro-climatological researches. The current research investigated the hybridization of a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network with nature-inspired optimization algorithms (i.e., gravitational search (GSA) and firefly (FFA)) to model the DPT of two climatically contrasted (humid and semi-arid) regions in India. Daily time scale measured weather information, such as wet bulb temperature (WBT), vapor pressure (VP), relative humidity (RH), and dew point temperature, was used to build the proposed predictive models. The efficiencies of the proposed hybrid MLP networks (MLP-FFA and MLP-GSA) were authenticated against standard MLP tuned by a Levenberg-Marquardt back-propagation algorithm, extreme learning machine (ELM), and support vector machine (SVM) models. Statistical evaluation metrics such as Nash Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), root mean square error (RMSE), and mean absolute error (MAE) were used to validate the model efficiency. The proposed hybrid MLP models exhibited excellent estimation accuracy. The hybridization of MLP with nature-inspired optimization algorithms boosted the estimation accuracy that is clearly owing to the tuning robustness. In general, the applied methodology showed very convincing results for both inspected climate zones. © 2019 by the authors.
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    Artificial intelligence approaches for spatial modeling of streambed hydraulic conductivity
    (Springer International Publishing, 2019) Naganna, S.R.; Deka, P.C.
    Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) describes the water movement through saturated porous media. The hydraulic conductivity of streambed varies spatially owing to the variations in sediment distribution profiles all along the course of the stream. The artificial intelligence (AI) based spatial modeling schemes were instituted and tested to predict the spatial patterns of streambed hydraulic conductivity. The geographical coordinates (i.e., latitude and longitude) of the sampled locations from where the in situ hydraulic conductivity measurements were determined were used as model inputs to predict streambed Ks over spatial scale using artificial neural network (ANN), adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and support vector machine (SVM) paradigms. The statistical measures computed by using the actual versus predicted streambed Ks values of individual models were comparatively evaluated. The AI-based spatial models provided superior spatial Ks prediction efficiencies with respect to both the strategies/schemes considered. The model efficiencies of spatial modeling scheme 1 (i.e., Strategy 1) were better compared to Strategy 2 due to the incorporation of more number of sampling points for model training. For instance, the SVM model with NSE = 0.941 (Strategy 1) and NSE = 0.895 (Strategy 2) were the best among all the models for 2016 data. Based on the scatter plots and Taylor diagrams plotted, the SVM model predictions were found to be much efficient even though, the ANFIS predictions were less biased. Although ANN and ANFIS models provided a satisfactory level of predictions, the SVM model provided virtuous streambed Ks patterns owing to its inherent capability to adapt to input data that are non-monotone and nonlinearly separable. The tuning of SVM parameters via 3D grid search was responsible for higher efficiencies of SVM models. © 2019, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences & Polish Academy of Sciences.
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    Machine learning-based modeling of saturated hydraulic conductivity in soils of tropical semi-arid zone of India
    (Springer, 2022) More, S.B.; Deka, P.C.; Patil, A.P.; Naganna, S.R.
    Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kfs) is the major parameter that affects the movement of water and solutes in soil strata. Although one can estimate the Kfs directly by using various field or laboratory methods, they turn out to be more time-consuming and painstaking while characterizing the spatial variability of Kfs. For this reason, some recent researches employ indirect approaches such as pedotransfer functions (PTF) and surface modeling methods for estimating Kfs of several scales. Pedotransfer functions are often developed by relating the Kfs with readily available soil properties such as bulk density, porosity, sand content, silt content, and organic material. The present research explores the suitability of Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) in developing PTF's for Kfs by using basic soil properties. In-situ field tests and laboratory experiments on collected samples were performed to acquire the datasets necessary for the analysis. Three competitive soft computing approaches, namely the ELM, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) based on Fuzzy C-means Clustering optimized by Genetic Algorithm were exercised for developing the Kfs models. Further, the performance of these approaches in modeling Kfs was evaluated using various statistical mertics. The performance of ELM was found to be good in comparison to the other two models, with sufficiently good NSE values. The ELM model provided Kfs predictions at the Murarji Peth and Punanaka sites with an NSE of 0.90 and 0.83, respectively, while at the Mulegoan site, the ANFIS model was better with R = 0.80 and NSE = 0.64. © 2022, Indian Academy of Sciences.