The main meteorological parameters which influencing the rainfall can be distilled from the MODIS satellite cloud
imagery and the artificial neural network (ANN) model constructed by these meteorological parameters and can be
applied on distributed rainfall estimation. Because it is difficult to decide the structure of back propagation neural
network (BPNN) and to solve the problem of local convergence, an appropriate training and modeling method of ANN
such as the real code genetic algorithm (RGA) is vital to the accuracy of rainfall estimation. The data of the simulation
tests show that the Mean Relative Error (MRE) of BPA model is 23.6%, while the MRE of RGA model is 20.7%,
Compared with the ANN trained by BPA, the estimation error of the ANN trained by RGA is cut down by 2.9%, and the
Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) is cut down by 2.5% at the same time, hence, the results prove that the ANN model
trained using RGA will significantly outperform the back propagation algorithm (BPA) trained ANN model and improve
the precision of rainfall estimation.
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