Geo-intelligence remote sensing platforms situated over spatially diverse areas are often tasked with geo-intelligence surveillance and adversarial monitoring for military organizations. Limited resources disallow continuous sampling of local areas at the same time, necessitating a need for smart sensing of diverse environments according to a rational evidence-based rule. Such algorithms should not only provide insight into which local region should be focused on, but should also facilitate decisions as to which environmental features should be measured over time once a local site has been selected. Multicomponent optimal learning observational arrays are demonstrated using numerically simulated data of turbulent flow to show not only the feasibility of how individual observational platforms should be chosen in a Bayesian sense, but also how goal state directed sampling of complex systems or turbulent processes over local regions can be accomplished. A Bayesian amalgamation algorithm guides which observational arrays perform knowledge gradient policy based optimal learning to smartly sample observations in local regions. Machine learning and operations research algorithms function as data agnostic, Bayesian processors demonstrating how geo-intelligence information can be efficiently captured to help solve data-driven problems.
Environmental engineering remote sensing platforms using hyperspectral imagery are often responsible for monitoring coastal regions in order to safeguard national waters. This objective requires determining subsurface turbulent structure from surface water spatial measurements for flow state assessment and decision-making. The inability of remote sensing platforms to penetrate the water column at depth because of turbulence-induced sediment-concentration modulation necessitates using models that dynamically link surface and subsurface structures. A hidden Markov model is applied to large-eddy simulated three-dimensional turbulent flow for the purpose of exploring the feasibility of constructing a system model possessing diagnostic/prognostic statistical power for turbulent state evolution. The data-driven model is based on machine-learning techniques that rely on data statistical covariance structure. Initial results suggest strong nonlinear coupling between the mean flow directed vorticity, cross mean flow velocity, and sediment concentration. In addition, a Bayesian-based state-action estimation algorithm is employed that demonstrates which turbulent feature variables should be focused on at specific times, given the desire to reach a known goal state, and given only a limited number of observations. Such a model gives experimentalists time- and resource-saving guidance for determining what turbulent variables to measure at different times in order to reach a known turbulent goal state.
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