AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-2008-5_1_10
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Use of Back-propagation Artificial Neural Networks for Groundwater Level Simulation

Azhar K. Affandi1* Kunio Watanabe1 Haryadi Tirtomihardjo2
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1 Geosphere Research Institute of Saitama University Shimo Okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
2 Center of Environmental Geology, Geological Agency Department of Energy and Mineral Resources Jalan Diponegoro No. 5, Bandung 40122, Indonesia
AJWEP 2008, 5(1), 57–65; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-2008-5_1_10
Submitted: 31 August 2006 | Accepted: 10 September 2007 | Published: 1 January 2008
© 2008 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

This article presents simulation of groundwater level fluctuation based on an artificial neural network modelling. The prediction used multi-layer back-propagation neural networks (BPANN). The case of study area was Jakarta, Indonesia, that has high population density and several purposes of groundwater resource usage. Input variables were using delay five-daily groundwater level fluctuation (GLF) of observation well interest to predict current GLF. The applicability of BPANN for GLF prediction was verified in three sets of input variables. The result showed that application of BPANN to simulate GLF gives satisfied prediction results.

Keywords
Groundwater level fluctuation
forecast
artificial neural network
back-propagation
Jakarta
Indonesia
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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