Short-Term Rainfall Forecasting by Combining BP-NN Algorithm and GNSS Technique for Landslide-Prone Areas

Extreme rainfall is the main contributing factor to landslides. Therefore, it is of great significance to monitor and forecast short-term rainfall in landslide-prone areas. However, the spatial scale of landslide-prone areas is small, and traditional numerical forecast models have difficulty in accurately forecasting rainfall on this scale. To solve the above problem, this study proposes a short-term rainfall forecasting method for landslide-prone areas by combining the back-propagation neural network (BP-NN) algorithm and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) observations to achieve accurate short-term rainfall forecasting in landslide-prone areas. Firstly, a high-precision atmospheric weighted-average temperature (Tm) model is established using radiosonde data to obtain high-precision precipitable water vapor (PWV) estimates. Secondly, the BP-NN algorithm is introduced, and the GNSS-derived PWV, temperature and pressure from a meteorological station, and rainfall for the previous and next hour are used as input parameters to establish a BP-NN-based rainfall forecast model. As an illustrative case, experiments are conducted in a landslide-prone area in Yunnan Province using data from 15 GNSS stations and the corresponding meteorological station. Statistical results show that the established regional Tm model has high accuracy, with an average root mean square (RMS) and bias of 3 K and 0.15 K, respectively. In addition, the short-term rainfall forecast model based on the BP algorithm achieves a true detection rate of up to 93.70% and a false forecast rate of as low as 38.30%, which is significant for short-term rainfall forecasting in landslide-prone areas.

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