This paper concerns the data-driven sensor deployment problem in large spatiotemporal fields.Traditionally,sensor deployment strategies have been heavily dependent on model-based planning approaches.However,model-base...This paper concerns the data-driven sensor deployment problem in large spatiotemporal fields.Traditionally,sensor deployment strategies have been heavily dependent on model-based planning approaches.However,model-based approaches do not typically maximize the information gain in the field,which tend to generate less effective sampling locations and lead to high reconstruction error.In the present paper,a data-driven approach is developed to overcome the drawbacks of the model-based approach and improve the spatiotemporal field reconstruction accuracy.The proposed method can select the most informative sampling locations to represent the entire spatiotemporal field.To this end,the proposed method decomposes the spatiotemporal field using principal component analysis(PC A)and finds the top r essential entities of the principal basis.The corresponding sampling locations of the selected entities are regarded as the sensor deployment locations.The observations collected at the selected sensor deployment locations can then be used to reconstruct the spatiotemporal field,accurately.Results are demonstrated using a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sea surface temperature dataset.In the present study,the proposed method achieved the lowest reconstruction error among all methods.展开更多
文摘This paper concerns the data-driven sensor deployment problem in large spatiotemporal fields.Traditionally,sensor deployment strategies have been heavily dependent on model-based planning approaches.However,model-based approaches do not typically maximize the information gain in the field,which tend to generate less effective sampling locations and lead to high reconstruction error.In the present paper,a data-driven approach is developed to overcome the drawbacks of the model-based approach and improve the spatiotemporal field reconstruction accuracy.The proposed method can select the most informative sampling locations to represent the entire spatiotemporal field.To this end,the proposed method decomposes the spatiotemporal field using principal component analysis(PC A)and finds the top r essential entities of the principal basis.The corresponding sampling locations of the selected entities are regarded as the sensor deployment locations.The observations collected at the selected sensor deployment locations can then be used to reconstruct the spatiotemporal field,accurately.Results are demonstrated using a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sea surface temperature dataset.In the present study,the proposed method achieved the lowest reconstruction error among all methods.
