Journal of Geo-information Science ›› 2018, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (8): 1169-1177.

### Pre-earthquake Anomaly Data Mining of Remote Sensing OLR in Nepal Earthquake

LIN Ling1,*(), KONG Xiangzeng1, LI Nan2, XIONG Pan3

1. 1. College of Mathematics and Informatics, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350000, China
2. College of Computer and Information Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University,Fuzhou 350000, China
3. Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100036, China
• Received:2017-11-28 Revised:2018-04-25 Online:2018-08-25 Published:2018-08-24
• Contact: LIN Ling E-mail:linling@fjnu.edu.cn
• Supported by:
Leading Project of Fujian Province, No.2015Y0054;National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund, No.41601477;National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.61361136002, 61772004.

Abstract:

A number of researches have shown that the occurrence of earthquakes is often accompanied by abnormal warming of infrared radiation data, which is hidden in the Outgoing Long-Wave Radiation (OLR) data, which has been captured by the NOAA remote sensing satellite. These abnormal signals are embedded in a large amount of normal information and cannot be recognized by human eyes or some common methods. Many scholars utilized different means to analyze the anomaly of infrared remote sensing data. However, there were still lack of any effective processing techniques and algorithms, and most of the thermal infrared satellite remote sensing data weren't fully utilized. In this work, we propose a data mining algorithm, which is based on the anomaly features of the martingale theory. The algorithm first calculates the distance between a sample point and the cluster, and then determines whether the measured point is abnormal according to a comprehensive operation of the number of abnormal points nearest to each point, and calculates the whole event sequence data changing trend based on the martingale theory. The martingale value (i.e. CD value) corresponding to each original point is obtained, so that the original data is stripped out, the noise and the normal data are obtained, and the anomaly is analyzed before the earthquake. The OLR data sources used in the experiments on this algorithm were from three earthquakes happened in Nepal between September 2014 and July 2015 (including the Ms7.8 earthquake in April 25, 2015). We found that the CD value of the OLR data about the epicenter region began to have significant temporal correlation characteristics of anomalous data changes as early as 2 or 3 months before the earthquake. The results of this research were similar to the comparison of the OLR original and CD values of the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquakes. In this paper, we analyzed the anomaly of the three earthquakes one month before and some two weeks after the earthquakes. The experimental results show that when the earthquake is larger, and the anomaly CD value occurs earlier. In conclusion, the more obvious the anomaly is, the closer the region is to the epicenter or fault zone, the farther from the epicenter, the weaker and appeared later the abnormal signal.