Towards Chl-a Bloom Understanding by EM-based Unsupervised Event Detection

Type Proceedings paper
Date 2017
Language English
Author(s) Poisson Caillault Emilie1, 2, Lefebvre AlainORCID2
Affiliation(s) 1 : Univ Littoral Cote dOpale, LISIC, EA 4491, F-62228 Calais, France.
2 : IFREMER, LER BL, F-62321 Boulogne Sur Mer, France.
Meeting Oceans 2017 - Aberdeen Conference. 19-22 June 2017, Aberdeen, ENGLAND
Source Proceedings of Oceans 2017. ISBN: 978-1-5090-5279-0. 5p.
DOI 10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084597
Keyword(s) Time series, Event detection, Expectation-Maximisation, Phenology, Chlorophyll-a, Phaeocystis
Abstract Marine water quality monitoring and subsequent management require to know when a specific event like harmful algae bloom may occur and which environmental conditions and pressures lead to this event. So, event detection and its dynamic understanding are crucial to adapt strategy. An algorithm is proposed to identify curves mixture and their dynamics features - initiation, duration, peaks and ends of the event. The approach is fully unsupervised, it requires no tuning parameters and is based on Expectation Maximization process to estimate the most robust mixture according to fixed criteria. A complete framework is proposed to deal with a univariate time series with missing data. The approach is applied on Chlorophyll- a series collected weekly since 1989. Chlorophyll-a is a proxy of the phytoplankton biomass. The results are promising according to the phytoplankton composition knowledge, collected at lower frequency, and allowing to discuss about the annual variability of phytoplankton dynamics.
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Poisson Caillault Emilie, Lefebvre Alain (2017). Towards Chl-a Bloom Understanding by EM-based Unsupervised Event Detection. Proceedings of Oceans 2017. ISBN: 978-1-5090-5279-0. 5p. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00435/54679/