Machine Learning Techniques for Automated ULF Wave Recognition in Swarm Time Series

Abstract

<p>Machine learning (ML) techniques have been successfully introduced in the fields of Space Physics and Space Weather, yielding highly promising results in modeling and predicting many disparate aspects of the geospace. Magnetospheric ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves play a key role in the dynamics of the near-Earth electromagnetic environment and, therefore, their importance in Space Weather studies is indisputable. Magnetic field measurements from recent multi-satellite missions are currently advancing our knowledge on the physics of ULF waves. In particular, Swarm satellites have contributed to the expansion of data availability in the topside ionosphere, stimulating much recent progress in this area. Coupled with the new successful developments in artificial intelligence, we are now able to use more robust approaches for automated ULF wave identification and classification. Here, we present results employing various neural networks (NNs) methods (e.g. Fuzzy Artificial Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks) in order to detect ULF waves in the time series of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The outputs of the methods are compared against other ML classifiers (e.g. k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), Support Vector Machines (SVM)), showing a clear dominance of the NNs in successfully classifying wave events.</p>