Journal of ICT Research and Applications
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2011)

Modeling Marine Electromagnetic Survey with Radial Basis Function Networks

Agus Arif (Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Eng., Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak)
Vijanth S. Asirvadam (Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Eng., Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak)
M.N. Karsiti (Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Eng., Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Aug 2012

Abstract

A marine electromagnetic survey is an engineering endeavour to discover the location and dimension of a hydrocarbon layer under an ocean floor. In this kind of survey, an array of electric and magnetic receivers are located on the sea floor and record the scattered, refracted and reflected electromagnetic wave, which has been transmitted by an electric dipole antenna towed by a vessel. The data recorded in receivers must be processed and further analysed to estimate the hydrocarbon location and dimension. To conduct those analyses successfuly, a radial basis function (RBF) network could be employed to become a forward model of the input-output relationship of the data from a marine electromagnetic survey. This type of neural networks is working based on distances between its inputs and predetermined centres of some basis functions. A previous research had been conducted to model the same marine electromagnetic survey using another type of neural networks, which is a multi layer perceptron (MLP) network. By comparing their validation and training performances (mean-squared errors and correlation coefficients), it is concluded that, in this case, the MLP network is comparatively better than the RBF network[1].[1] This manuscript is an extended version of our previous paper, entitled Radial Basis Function Networks for Modeling Marine Electromagnetic Survey, which had been presented on 2011 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 17-19 July 2011, Bandung, Indonesia.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jictra

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

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Journal of ICT Research and Applications welcomes full research articles in the area of Information and Communication Technology from the following subject areas: Information Theory, Signal Processing, Electronics, Computer Network, Telecommunication, Wireless & Mobile Computing, Internet ...