Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6540817 | Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 2015 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Accurate estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is needed for planning and managing water resources and agricultural production. The FAO-56 Penman-Monteith equation is used to determinate ET0 based on the data collected during the period 1980-2010 in Serbia. In order to forecast ET0, four soft computing methods were analyzed: genetic programming (GP), support vector machine-firefly algorithm (SVM-FFA), artificial neural network (ANN), and support vector machine-wavelet (SVM-Wavelet). The reliability of these computational models was analyzed based on simulation results and using five statistical tests including Pearson correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination, root-mean-square error, absolute percentage error, and mean absolute error. The end-point result indicates that SVM-Wavelet is the best methodology for ET0 prediction, whereas SVM-Wavelet and SVM-FFA models have higher correlation coefficient as compared to ANN and GP computational methods.
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Authors
Milan GociÄ, Shervin Motamedi, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Dalibor PetkoviÄ, Sudheer Ch, Roslan Hashim, Muhammad Arif,