In this paper, we present a regression framework involving several machine learning models to estimate water parameters based on hyperspectral data. Measurements from a multi-sensor field campaign, conducted on the River Elbe, Germany, represent the benchmark dataset. It contains hyperspectral data and the five water p…
Light pillars over rippled water appear parallel due to projection geometry.
problem Light pillars over rippled water appear parallel.
method Developing a geometric optics model
result The phenomenon is explained using the specular reflection rule, projection geometry, and physics of surface slopes.
According to the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme, every day, 2 million tons of sewage and industrial and agricultural waste are discharged into the worlds water. In order to address this pervasive issue of increasing water pollution, while ensuring that the global population has an efficient, accurate, …
Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of myelin water content quantification using fast dual-echo steady-state (DESS) scans and machine learning with kernels. Methods: We optimized combinations of steady-state (SS) scans for precisely estimating the fast-relaxing signal fraction ff of a two-compartment signal model, …
Machine learning models estimate nutrient concentrations from water quality surrogates.
problem Estimating high frequency nutrient concentrations from limited in-situ measurements.
method Used machine learning (Random Forests) to estimate nutrient concentrations using surrogate measures.
result Reduced RMSE by up to 60.1% compared to linear models, with additional sensors not providing significant benefits.
The study forecasts water quality from satellite data using machine learning.
problem Predicting future water quality from satellite data for coastal regions.
method Decomposed time series into components and used machine learning models (SARIMA, regression, neural network).
result Regression and neural network models are best at predicting Chl-a, SARIMA model best at FLH and SST.
Paper presents a GAN model for realistic river image synthesis.
problem Generating high-quality river images for hydrological research.
method Used a Progressive Growing GAN (PGGAN) architecture to overcome training challenges.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of GANs in generating high-resolution river images.
Machine learning and deep learning infer surface/groundwater exchange from temperature data.
problem Inferring surface/groundwater exchange from temperature data with high temporal resolution.
method Application of machine learning and deep learning algorithms to infer surface/groundwater exchange flux from subsurface temperature observations.
result DL methods outperform ML methods in interpreting noisy temperature data, especially with a smoothing filter.
Generative model improves noise estimation in stochastic rotating shallow water models.
problem Improving noise estimation in stochastic partial differential equations for fluid dynamics.
method Replaced PCA with a generative model to avoid constraints on stochastic increments.
result Generative model produces better RMSE, CRPS score, and forecast rank histograms.
Deep learning method improves myelin water fraction estimation.
problem Estimating myelin water fraction in the brain using magnetic resonance relaxometry.
method Combines input layer regularization with automated regularization hyperparameter tuning.
result Proposed method outperforms classical methods and multi-layer perceptrons on in vivo brain data.
Research develops a water quality prediction model using LSTM.
problem Global degradation of water resources and need for optimal water quality monitoring.
method Developed a multivariate water quality prediction model using LSTM and historical data.
result Multiple step LSTM model achieved RMSE of 0.227 mg/L.
Deep learning enhances water resources management through data analysis.
problem Data volume and variety in water resources management.
method Systematic review of deep learning applications in hydrology and water resources.
result Deep learning improves water resources monitoring, prediction, and classification.
Considering the interdependencies between water and electricity use is critical for ensuring conservation measures are successful in lowering the net water and electricity use in a city. This water-electricity demand nexus will become even more important as cities continue to grow, causing water and electricity utiliti…
New model estimates Gibbs free energies using machine learning and isobaric-isothermal flows.
problem Estimating Gibbs free energies for complex systems.
method Normalizing flows trained to sample isobaric-isothermal ensemble.
result Excellent agreement with established baselines for water phases.
The U.S. water distribution system contains thousands of miles of pipes constructed from different materials, and of various sizes, and age. These pipes suffer from physical, environmental, structural and operational stresses, causing deterioration which eventually leads to their failure. Pipe deterioration results in …
Model forecasts water demand with probabilistic multi-step-ahead approach.
problem Accurate probabilistic forecasts of water demand for operational control.
method Time series model with Lasso for high-dimensional feature space.
result Accurate, interpretable, and fast computable forecasting model.
A model for groundwater trading among stakeholders.
problem Groundwater trading among stakeholders in a basin.
method Optimization of production by agents considering water rights, consumption, and trading.
result Characterization of Nash equilibrium in a 1-period setting and initial insights into multi-period game.
Predict water pipe failures using machine learning and survival analysis.
problem Difficulty in accessing water pipes for maintenance.
method Classical and modern classifiers for short-term prediction, survival analysis for long-term forecast, and oversampling technique for imbalanced data.
result Identifies important risk factors for water pipe failures.
Water balance models (WBMs) are often employed to understand regional hydrologic cycles over various time scales. Most WBMs, however, are physically-based, and few employ state-of-the-art statistical methods to reconcile independent input measurement uncertainty and bias. Further, few WBMs exist for large lakes, and mo…
Low-cost water-level tracking using LTE power metrics and wavelet analysis.
problem Real-time water-level monitoring across many locations with fixed instruments.
method Extracts per-antenna RSRP, RSSI, and RSRQ, applies CWT to RSRP, and uses a neural network to track water-level changes.
result Achieves root-mean-square and mean-absolute errors of 0.8 cm and 0.5 cm, respectively, under line-of-sight conditions.
Quantile regression improves urban water demand forecasting.
problem Improving probabilistic urban water demand forecasting.
method Comparing five quantile regression algorithms and their combinations for one-day ahead forecasting.
result Linear boosting algorithm performs best for probabilistic urban water demand forecasting.
Energy consumption for hot water production is a major draw in high efficiency buildings. Optimizing this has typically been approached from a thermodynamics perspective, decoupled from occupant influence. Furthermore, optimization usually presupposes existence of a detailed dynamics model for the hot water system. The…
Novel Orlicz regrets consistently bound environmental variable statistics.
problem Consistent evaluation of stochastic environmental variables like water quality indices.
method Proposed novel Orlicz regrets for upper and lower bounds.
result Explicit linkage between Orlicz regrets and divergence risk measures.
When the residents of Flint learned that lead had contaminated their water system, the local government made water-testing kits available to them free of charge. The city government published the results of these tests, creating a valuable dataset that is key to understanding the causes and extent of the lead contamina…
Normalizing flows model atomic solids without needing ground-truth samples.
problem Modeling atomic solids without ground-truth samples.
method Normalizing flows to transform a base distribution into the target solid.
result Excellent agreement between model estimates and literature values for Helmholtz free energy.
Highly accurate potential energy surfaces are of key interest for the detailed understanding and predictive modeling of chemical systems. In recent years, several new types of force fields, which are based on machine learning algorithms and fitted to ab initio reference calculations, have been introduced to meet this r…
Artificial neural networks estimate model parameters from observations, reducing model errors.
problem Estimating parameters of convection-permitting models from observations.
method Training Bayesian neural networks and point estimate neural networks on atmospheric state observations.
result Artificial neural networks can estimate model parameters and their statistics.
Deep learning automates biofouling detection in ship hull images.
problem Automating biofouling assessment from ship hull images.
method Deep learning model trained on expert-annotated images.
result Deep learning model agrees with expert annotations.
Water pollution is a major global environmental problem, and it poses a great environmental risk to public health and biological diversity. This work is motivated by assessing the potential environmental threat of coal mining through increased sulfate concentrations in river networks, which do not belong to any simple …
LightGBM outperforms other models in predicting pH values in Georgia, USA.
problem Accurate water quality prediction for effective resource management and pollution mitigation.
method Five distinct predictive models (linear regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, MLP neural network) were assessed for pH value forecasting in Georgia, USA.
result LightGBM achieved the highest average precision in predicting pH values.
Rapidly estimating the remaining wall thickness (RWT) is paramount for the non-destructive condition assessment evaluation of large critical metallic pipelines. A robotic vehicle with embedded magnetism-based sensors has been developed to traverse the inside of a pipeline and conduct inspections at the location of a br…
Machine learning predicts liquid water properties from cluster data.
problem Accuracy of bulk properties from machine-learned potentials is limited by training data.
method Local, atom-centred descriptors enable prediction of bulk properties from cluster data.
result Excellent agreement with experimental and theoretical counterparts of liquid water properties.
Water saturation is an important property in reservoir engineering domain. Thus, satisfactory classification of water saturation from seismic attributes is beneficial for reservoir characterization. However, diverse and non-linear nature of subsurface attributes makes the classification task difficult. In this context,…
Proposes a probabilistic model to improve hydrology predictions and trust.
problem Noisy or missing basin characteristics impact streamflow prediction.
method Probabilistic inverse modeling framework to reconstruct basin characteristics.
result 6% improvement in R2 for streamflow prediction, 17% reduction in uncertainty. Study predicts coastal water quality using machine learning, identifying salinity as key factor.
problem Predicting and managing coastal water quality for public health and tourism.
method Machine learning models (Catboost, Xgboost, Random Forests, Support Vector Regression, Artificial Neural Networks) trained on environmental data.
result Catboost algorithm performed best, with R² values of 0.71 and 0.68 for E. Coli and enterococci predictions.
As the issue of freshwater shortage is increasing daily, it is critical to take effective measures for water conservation. According to previous studies, device level consumption could lead to significant freshwater conservation. Existing water disaggregation methods focus on learning the signatures for appliances; how…
Deep learning (DL), a new-generation of artificial neural network research, has transformed industries, daily lives and various scientific disciplines in recent years. DL represents significant progress in the ability of neural networks to automatically engineer problem-relevant features and capture highly complex data…
Hybrid model predicts flow and pressure in water systems.
problem Predicting flow and pressure in water distribution systems with complex spatial-temporal correlations.
method Hybrid dual-stage spatial-temporal attention-based recurrent neural networks (hDS-RNN).
result Our model outperformed 9 baseline models in flow and pressure series prediction.
Method reduces model bias in water temperature prediction using physics-guided GNNs.
problem Model bias in traditional physics-based models across different income and education levels.
method Physics-guided GNNs with refined neighbor selection and weights.
result Preserves equitable performance across different sensitive groups in the Delaware River Basin.
Combines machine learning and convex limiting for accurate subgrid flux modeling in shallow-water equations.
problem Accurate subgrid flux modeling in shallow-water equations.
method Machine learning and flux limiting for property-preserving subgrid scale modeling.
result The proposed method produces meaningful closures even in untrained scenarios.
ML models predict water table depth more accurately than PB models, especially in data-scarce regions.
problem Uncertainty in large-scale simulations of water table depth due to biased observational data and model flexibility.
method Constructed three ML models using XGBoost and over 20 million real and proxy observations across the US and Canada.
result ML models correlate 0.6-0.75 with real and proxy observations, significantly better than PB models (0.21-0.40).
A new method for state estimation on complex networks.
problem Reconstructing latent dynamics from multivariate time-series on topological cell complexes.
method Topology-aware state space framework derived from stochastic partial differential equations, with state evolution following heat-like topological diffusion.
result The proposed method successfully recovers latent states and topological structures in real-world networks.
In the face of growing needs for water and energy, a fundamental understanding of the environmental impacts of human activities becomes critical for managing water and energy resources, remedying water pollution, and making regulatory policy wisely. Among activities that impact the environment, oil and gas production, …
Study uses DNN to accurately estimate daily ET o in various climates.
problem Precise estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ET o ) for irrigation and water management.
method Investigated artificial neural network (ANN) and deep neural network (DNN) models using six meteorological inputs.
result DNN models, especially P-DNN-SeLU, achieve high accuracy in daily ET o estimation.
The paper presents anomaly detection in time series data using InfluxDB and Python.
problem Anomalous data points in time series data affect decision making in water and environmental systems.
method Data cleaning, cost-sensitive machine learning (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, SVM), feature selection, and InfluxDB integration.
result Random Forest outperformed other models in detecting anomalies.
Optimizes classification algorithms with bounds on error rates.
problem Bounding uncertainties in classifier outputs for diagnostic testing.
method Set-theoretic and probabilistic arguments to derive uniform error bounds.
result Optimal partition minimizes the largest Gershgorin radius of the confusion matrix.
We present here the Temporal Clustering Algorithm (TCA), an incremental learning algorithm applicable to problems of anticipatory computing in the context of the Internet of Things. This algorithm was tested in a specific prediction scenario of consumption of an electric water dispenser typically used in tropical count…
Optimal neuron activation functions improve neural network performance.
problem Limited expressive power of standard neuron activation functions in neural networks.
method Additive Gaussian process regression to construct individual neuron activation functions.
result Optimal neuron activation functions lead to better performance and reduced overfitting.