Predicting Hydraulic Conductivity (k) of Tropical Soils by using Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
Abstract
Hydraulic conductivity of tropical soils is very complex. Several hydraulic conductivity prediction methods have focused on laboratory and field tests, such as the Constant Head Test, Falling Head Test, Ring Infiltrometer, Instantaneous profile method and Test Basins. In the present study, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has been used as a tool for predicting the hydraulic conductivity (k) of some tropical soils. ANN is potentially useful in situations where the underlying physical process relationships are not fully understood and well-suited in modeling dynamic systems on a real-time basis. The hydraulic conductivity of tropical soil can be predicted by using ANN, if the physical properties of the soil e.g., moisture content, specific gravity, void ratio etc. are known. This study demonstrates the comparison between the conventional estimation of k by using Shepard's equation for approximating k and the predicted k from ANN. A programme was written by using MATLAB 6.5.1 and eight different training algorithms, namely Resilient Backpropagation (rp), Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm (lm), Conjugate Gradient Polak-Ribiere algorithm (cgp), Scale Conjugate Gradient (scg), BFGS Quasi-Newton (bfg), Conjugate Gradient with Powell/Beale Restarts (cgb), Fletcher-Powell Conjugate Gradient (cgf), and One-step Secant (oss) have been compared to produce the best prediction of k. The result shows that the network trained with Resilient Backpropagation (rp) consistently produces the most accurate results with a value of R = 0.8493 and E2 = 0.7209.
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