Comparison of soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) and multilayer perceptron (MLP) artificial neural network for predicting sediment yield in the Nagwa agricultural watershed in Jharkhand, India

A. Singh, M. Imtiyaz, R.K. Isaac and D.M. Denis

Agricultural Water Management, 2012, vol. 104, issue C, 113-120

Abstract: The present study was conducted in the Nagwa watershed in Jharkhand state, India. The watershed has been identified as a sensitive area for sediment and non-point source pollution. Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), Hazaribagh, India has taken initiatives to implement several soil and water conservation measures. A calibrated and validated model to simulate hydrological processes will be a great help to the concerned watershed managers. The objectives of this study were to compare the monthly sediment yield simulation results from the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) and the multilayer perceptron (MLP) artificial neural network model during the calibration (1993–2004) and validation periods (2005–2007), and determine the most appropriate model for the watershed. The annual average measured sediment yield was 3.7t/ha. The annual average simulated sediment yield was 3.1 and 5.0t/ha for MLP and SWAT model, respectively. Both models generally provided good correlation and model efficiency for simulating monthly sediment yield during calibration and validation. For the SWAT model the coefficient of determination (R2) and Nash-Sutcliffe simulation efficiency (NSE) values were 0.78 and 0.76 during calibration and 0.68 and 0.66 during validation, respectively. The MLP model performed better than SWAT with R2 and NSE values of 0.84 and 0.76 during training and 0.77 and 0.74 during validation periods, respectively.

Keywords: Hydrologic model; Water resources; Watershed hydrology; Measured sediment yield; Model calibration; Model validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2011.12.005

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