Wave Height Prediction Suitable for Maritime Transportation Based on Green Ocean of Things

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Article

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Nowadays, the application fields of the Internet of Things (IoT) involve all aspects. This article combines ocean research with the IoT, in order to investigate the wave height prediction to assist ships to improve the economy and safety of maritime transportation and proposes an ocean IoT Green Ocean of Things (GOoT) with a green and low-carbon concept. In the wave height prediction, we apply a hybrid model (EMD-TCN) combining the temporal convolutional network (TCN) and the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to the buoy observation data. We then compare it with TCN, long short-term memory (LSTM), and hybrid model EMD-LSTM. By testing the data of eight selected NDBC buoys distributed in different sea areas, the effectiveness of the EMD-TCN hybrid model in wave height prediction is verified. The hysteresis problem in previous wave height prediction research is eliminated, while improving the accuracy of the wave height prediction. In the 24 h, 36 h, and 48 h wave height prediction, the minimum mean absolute errors are 0.1265, 0.1689, and 0.1963, respectively; the maximum coefficient of determination are 0.9388, 0.9019, and 0.8712, respectively. In addition, in the short-term prediction, the EMD-TCN hybrid model also performs well, and has strong versatility.

First Page

328

Last Page

337

DOI

10.1109/TAI.2022.3168246

Publication Date

4-19-2022

Keywords

Empirical mode decomposition (EMD), Internet of Things (IoT), maritime transportation, temporal convolutional network (TCN), wave height prediction

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