Highlights Three methods was proposed to automatic identification of spread F. The comparison of three methods in scaling of ionogram was carried out. The CNN might be the best method in automatic identification of spread F.

    Abstract Ionospheric spread-F (SF) is a commonly observed phenomenon of electron density perturbation in the F-layer. The ionospheric irregularities structure has an adverse effect on the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the ionosphere. The automatic identification of ionospheric spread-F and statistical study of the formation of spread-F are of great significance to the study of the physical mechanism of ionospheric inhomogeneity and for prediction of ionospheric irregularities. In this paper, we describe and implement three automatic identification methods of spread-F based on machine learning: decision tree, random forest, and convolutional neural network (CNN). The performance of these automatic identification methods was verified using a large set of test data. Results show that the accuracy of all three methods on identifying ionograms with spread-F exceeded 90%. After comparing the results of the three methods, we found that the decision tree method was the simplest and with the structure easiest to be understood, and it required the shortest interpretation time. In terms of the identification results, the random forest method provided better results than the decision tree method, and the CNN method was the best at accurately identifying ionograms with spread-F.


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    Title :

    A comparative study of decision tree, random forest, and convolutional neural network for spread-F identification


    Contributors:
    Lan, Ting (author) / Hu, Hui (author) / Jiang, Chunhua (author) / Yang, Guobin (author) / Zhao, Zhengyu (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 65 , 8 ; 2052-2061


    Publication date :

    2020-01-28


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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