Estimation of daily suspended sediments using support vector machines
HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES, cilt.53, sa.3, ss.656-666, 2008 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 53 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2008
- Doi Numarası: 10.1623/hysj.53.3.656
- Dergi Adı: HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.656-666
- Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The use of support vector machines-a new regression procedure in water resources-was investigated for predicting suspended sediment concentration/load in rivers. The method was applied to the observed streamflow and suspended sediment data of two rivers in the USA, which have already been used in earlier studies using soft computing techniques. The estimated suspended sediment values were found to be in good agreement with the observed ones. Negative sediment estimates, which were encountered in the soft computing calculations, are not produced by this method. The results indicate that this approach may give better performance than those described in the literature using different methodologies.