Enforced Self-Organizing Map Neural Networks for River Flood Forecasting
Resource
Hydrological Processes, 21(6), 741-749
Journal
Hydrological Processes
Pages
741-749
Date Issued
2007-03
Date
2007-03
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Abstract
Self-organizing maps (SOMs) have been successfully accepted widely in science and engineering problems; not only are their results unbiased, but they can also be visualized. In this study, we propose an enforced SOM (ESOM) coupled with a linear regression output layer for flood forecasting. The ESOM re-executes a few extra training patterns, e.g. the peak flow, as recycling input data increases the mapping space of peak flow in the topological structure of SOM, and the weighted sum of the extended output layer of the network improves the accuracy of forecasting peak flow. We have investigated an ESOM neural network by using the flood data of the Da-Chia River, Taiwan, and evaluated its performance based on the results obtained from a commonly used back-propagation neural network. The results demonstrate that the ESOM neural network has great efficiency for clustering, especially for the peak flow, and super capability of modelling the flood forecast. The topology maps created from the ESOM are interesting and informative.
Subjects
self-organizing map (SOM)
artificial neural network
rainfall-runoff process
flood forecasting
Type
journal article
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