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Automated detection of unusual soil moisture probe response patterns with association rule learning
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Automated detection of unusual soil moisture probe response patterns with association rule learning

Ziwen Yu, Alex Bedig, Franco Montalto and Marcus Quigley
Environmental modelling & software : with environment data news, v 105, pp 257-269
Jul 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.04.001
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Abstract

Anomalous pattern detection Association rule learning Dynamic time warping Green infrastructure QAQC
In-situ field monitoring networks generate vast quantities of continuous data can help to improve the design, management, operation and maintenance of Green Infrastructure (GI) systems. However, such actions require efficient and reliable quality assurance quality control (QAQC). In this paper, we develop a rule-based learning algorithm involving Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to investigate the feasibility of detecting anomalous responses from soil moisture probes using data collected from a GI site in Milwaukee, WI. As an enhancement to traditional QAQC methods which rely on individual time steps, this method converts the continuous time series into event sequences from which response patterns can be detected. Association rules are developed on both environmental features and event features. The results suggest that this method could be used to identify abnormal change patterns as compared to intra-site historical observations. Though developed for soil moisture, this method could easily be extended to apply on other continuous environmental datasets. •Environmental and event features can be associated with the similarity of paired soil moisture change event.•Better accuracy can be achieved by involving more features related to the soil moisture chang and learning from larger data set from longer observations or monitoring network with multiple probes.•Such association rules can help to efficiently checking the validity of a soil moisture change pattern•This method, as an enhancement to traditional QAQC methods, can also be applied on other continuous environmental monitoring data streams.

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#14 Life Below Water
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