Comparison of ordinary kriging and artificial neural network for spatial mapping of arsenic contamination of groundwater |
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| Authors: | Mohammad Chowdhury Ali Alouani Faisal Hossain |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505-0001, USA;(2) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505-0001, USA;; |
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| Abstract: | In this technical note, we investigate the hypothesis that ‘non-linearity matters in the spatial mapping of complex patterns of groundwater arsenic contamination’. The spatial mapping pertained to data-driven techniques of spatial interpolation based on sampling data at finite locations.
Using the well known example of extensive groundwater contamination by arsenic in Bangladesh, we find that the use of a highly
non-linear pattern learning technique in the form of an artificial neural network (ANN) can yield more accurate results under
the same set of constraints when compared to the ordinary kriging method. One ANN and a variogram model were used to represent
the spatial structure of arsenic contamination for the whole country. The probability for successful detection of a well as
safe or unsafe was found to be atleast 15% larger than that by kriging under the country-wide scenario. The probability of
false hopes, which is a serious issue in public health monitoring was found to be significantly lower (by more than 10%) than
that by kriging. |
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