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ResLearner: geophysically-informed machine learning for improving the accuracy of rapid Earth orientation parameters
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  • Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi,
  • Robert Dill,
  • Henryk Dobslaw,
  • Alexander Kehm,
  • Mathis Bloßfeld,
  • Matthias Schartner,
  • Siddhartha Mishra,
  • Benedikt Soja
Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi
Institute of geodesy and photogrammetry, ETH Zurich

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Robert Dill
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
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Henryk Dobslaw
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
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Alexander Kehm
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI-TUM), Technical University of Munich
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Mathis Bloßfeld
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut (DGFI-TUM), Technical University of Munich
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Matthias Schartner
Institute of geodesy and photogrammetry, ETH Zurich
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Siddhartha Mishra
ETH Zurich
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Benedikt Soja
Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich
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Abstract

Rapid provision of Earth Orientation Parameters (EOPs, here polar motion and dUT1) is indispensable in many geodetic applications and also for spacecraft navigation. There are, however, discrepancies between the rapid EOPs and the final EOPs that have a higher latency, but the highest accuracy. To reduce these discrepancies, we focus on a data-driven approach, present a novel method named ResLearner, and use it in the context of deep ensemble learning. Furthermore, we introduce a geophysically-constrained approach for ResLearner. We show that the most important geophysical information to improve the rapid EOPs is the effective angular momentum functions of atmosphere, ocean, land hydrology, and sea level. In addition, semi-diurnal, diurnal, and long-period tides coupled with prograde and retrograde tidal excitations are important features. The influence of some climatic indices on the prediction accuracy of dUT1 is discussed and El Ni\~{n}o Southern Oscillation is found to be influential. We developed an operational framework, providing the improved EOPs on a daily basis with a prediction window of 63 days to fully cover the latency of final EOPs. We show that under the operational conditions and using the rapid EOPs of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) we achieve improvements as high as 60\%, thus significantly reducing the differences between rapid and final EOPs. Furthermore, we discuss how the new final series IERS 20 C04 is preferred over 14 C04. Finally, we compare against EOP hindcast experiments of European Space Agency, on which ResLearner presents comparable improvements.
03 May 2023Submitted to ESS Open Archive
04 May 2023Published in ESS Open Archive