Imputation of GPS Coordinate Time Series Using missForest

Autor: Shengkai Zhang, Li Gong, Qi Zeng, Wenhao Li, Feng Xiao, Jintao Lei
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 12, p 2312 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 13122312
2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs13122312
Popis: The global positioning system (GPS) can provide the daily coordinate time series to help geodesy and geophysical studies. However, due to logistics and malfunctioning, missing values are often “seen” in GPS time series, especially in polar regions. Acquiring a consistent and complete time series is the prerequisite for accurate and reliable statical analysis. Previous imputation studies focused on the temporal relationship of time series, and only a few studies used spatial relationships and/or were based on machine learning methods. In this study, we impute 20 Greenland GPS time series using missForest, which is a new machine learning method for data imputation. The imputation performance of missForest and that of four traditional methods are assessed, and the methods’ impacts on principal component analysis (PCA) are investigated. Results show that missForest can impute more than a 30-day gap, and its imputed time series has the least influence on PCA. When the gap size is 30 days, the mean absolute value of the imputed and true values for missForest is 2.71 mm. The normalized root mean squared error is 0.065, and the distance of the first principal component is 0.013. missForest outperforms the other compared methods. missForest can effectively restore the information of GPS time series and improve the results of related statistical processes, such as PCA analysis.
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