A three-stage online anomaly identification model for monitoring data in dams

Abstract

The monitoring of data anomaly identification is an important basis for dam safety online monitoring and evaluation. In this research, a cluster of anomaly identification models for dam safety monitoring data was constructed, and a three-stage online anomaly identification method was proposed to discriminate outliers. The proposed method combined anomaly detection for measured values based on a single-point time series simulation, measurement error reduction based on remote retesting and spatio-temporal analysis, and environmental response mutation recognition. It brought about efficient and accurate detection for data mutation and online classified identification for its inducement. Additionally, problems such as missing outliers, misjudging normal values induced by the environmental response, and difficulty in online identification for measurement errors were effectively solved. The research productions were applied to the online monitoring system for the safety risk of reservoirs and dams in the Dadu River Basin. The results showed that the proposed method could effectively improve the accuracy of anomaly identification and reduce the misjudgment and omission rate to less than 2%. It could also successfully recognize and subtract nonstructural anomalies such as accidental errors, instrument faults, and environmental responses online, which provided reliable data for online dam safety monitoring.