IJEP 44(5): 428-436 : Vol. 44 Issue. 5 (May 2024)
1. Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Kalavakkam – 603 110, Tamil Nadu, India
2. Anna University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai – 600 025 , Tamil Nadu, India
3. KSCSTE- National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC), Thiruvananthapuram – 695 011, Kerala, India
Abstract
Hydrologists have a formidable challenge when trying to forecast rainfall, the major source of water supplies. The ability to foresee it is crucial for drought and flood management. Agriculture, hydroelectric power generation, fisheries and the dairy industry all rely on reliable precipitation forecasts. Rainfall prediction also involves recording various parameters, like wind speed, direction and temperature. Conventional statistical and advanced machine learning (ML) techniques are used for rainfall predictions. In last few years, it has been seen that ML techniques have achieved better performance in weather predictions than the traditional statistical methods. In this work, advanced ML techniques, like decision tree (DT), linear regression (LR) and XG-boost were used to predict rainfall in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India. The rainfall data was collected for the period of 50 years and it was predicted till the year 2035. From the adopted ML techniques, linear regression algorithm gave closer results with observed rainfall data and in same way, the predicted results also followed the same trend. The predicted rainfall results were plotted spatially through Arc-GIS process for spatially accurate information.
Keywords
Rainfall prediction, Machine learning techniques, Arc-GIS spatial maps, XG-boost
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