Predicting suspended sediment load in Peninsular Malaysia using support vector machine and deep learning algorithms

Essam, Yusuf and Huang, Yuk Feng and Birima, Ahmed H. and Ahmed, Ali Najah and Ahmed El-Shafie, Ahmed Hussein Kamel (2022) Predicting suspended sediment load in Peninsular Malaysia using support vector machine and deep learning algorithms. Scientific Reports, 12 (1). ISSN 2045-2322, DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04419-w.

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Abstract

High loads of suspended sediments in rivers are known to cause detrimental effects to potable water sources, river water quality, irrigation activities, and dam or reservoir operations. For this reason, the study of suspended sediment load (SSL) prediction is important for monitoring and damage mitigation purposes. The present study tests and develops machine learning (ML) models, based on the support vector machine (SVM), artificial neural network (ANN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithms, to predict SSL based on 11 different river data sets comprising of streamflow (SF) and SSL data obtained from the Malaysian Department of Irrigation and Drainage. The main objective of the present study is to propose a single model that is capable of accurately predicting SSLs for any river data set within Peninsular Malaysia. The ANN3 model, based on the ANN algorithm and input scenario 3 (inputs consisting of current-day SF, previous-day SF, and previous-day SSL), is determined as the best model in the present study as it produced the best predictive performance for 5 out of 11 of the tested data sets and obtained the highest average RM with a score of 2.64 when compared to the other tested models, indicating that it has the highest reliability to produce relatively high-accuracy SSL predictions for different data sets. Therefore, the ANN3 model is proposed as a universal model for the prediction of SSL within Peninsular Malaysia.

Item Type: Article
Funders: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia, via Project Research Assistantship (PRA) [UTARRPS 6251/H03]
Uncontrolled Keywords: Fault-Diagnosis; Model; Conjunction; Catchment; System; Impact; Input
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering > Department of Civil Engineering
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 02 Aug 2022 01:07
Last Modified: 02 Aug 2022 01:07
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/33491

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