Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather

Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather provides a thorough and accessible presentation of machine learning techniques that can be employed by space weather professionals. Additionally, it presents an overview of real-world applications in space science to the machine learning community, offering a bridge between the fields. As this volume demonstrates, real advances in space weather can be gained using nontraditional approaches that take into account nonlinear and complex dynamics, including information theory, nonlinear auto-regression models, neural networks and clustering algorithms.

Offering practical techniques for translating the huge amount of information hidden in data into useful knowledge that allows for better prediction, this book is a unique and important resource for space physicists, space weather professionals and computer scientists in related fields.

Collects many representative non-traditional approaches to space weather into a single volumeCovers, in an accessible way, the mathematical background that is not often explained in detail for space scientistsIncludes free software in the form of simple MATLAB® scripts that allow for replication of results in the book, also familiarizing readers with algorithms

Space Weather 1. Societal and Economic Importance of Space Weather 2. Data Availability and Forecast Products for Space Weather

Machine Learning 3. Information Theory 4. Regression 5. Classification

Applications 6. Geo-effectiveness of Solar Wind Parameter: An Information Theory Approach 7. Emergence of Dynamical Complexity in the Earth's Magnetosphere 8. Applications of NARMAX in Space Weather 9. Many Hours Ahead Prediction of Geomagnetic Storms with Gaussian Processes 10. Prediction of Mev Electron Fluxes with Autoregressive Models 11. Forecast of Solar Wind Parameters Using Kalman Filter 12. Artificial Neural Networks for Determining Magnetospheric Conditions 13. Reconstruction of Plasma Electron Density from Satellite Measurements via Artifical Neural Networks 14. Classification of Magnetospheric Particle Distributions via NN 15. Automated Solar Flare Prediction 16. Coronal Holes Detection using Supervised Classification 17. CME Classification via k-means Clustering Algorithm