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A comparative study for the estimation of geodetic point velocity by artificial neural networks

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Space geodesy era provides velocity information which results in the positioning of geodetic points by considering the time evolution. The geodetic point positions on the Earth’s surface change over time due to plate tectonics, and these changes have to be accounted for geodetic purposes. The velocity field of geodetic network is determined from GPS sessions. Velocities of the new structured geodetic points within the geodetic network are estimated from this velocity field by the interpolation methods. In this study, the utility of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) widely applied in diverse fields of science is investigated in order to estimate the geodetic point velocities. Back Propagation Artificial Neural Network (BPANN) and Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) are used to estimate the geodetic point velocities. In order to evaluate the performance of ANNs, the velocities are also interpolated by Kriging (KRIG) method. The results are compared in terms of the root mean square error (RMSE) over five different geodetic networks. It was concluded that the estimation of geodetic point velocity by BPANN is more effective and accurate than by KRIG when the points to be estimated are more than the points known.

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This study was supported by Afyon Kocatepe University Scientific Research Projects Coordination Department (Project No: 11.FEN.BIL.23). The authors thank the two anonymous reviewers whose constructive comments led to significant improvements on the original manuscript.

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YILMAZ, M., GULLU, M. A comparative study for the estimation of geodetic point velocity by artificial neural networks. J Earth Syst Sci 123, 791–808 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-014-0411-6

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