The Generalized Method of Wavelet Moments with Exogenous Inputs: a Fast Approach for the Analysis of GNSS Position Time Series

06/20/2022
by   Davide A. Cucci, et al.
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The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) daily position time series are often described as the sum of stochastic processes and geophysical signals which allow studying global and local geodynamical effects such as plate tectonics, earthquakes, or ground water variations. In this work we propose to extend the Generalized Method of Wavelet Moments (GMWM) to estimate the parameters of linear models with correlated residuals. This statistical inferential framework is applied to GNSS daily position time series data to jointly estimate functional (geophysical) as well as stochastic noise models. Our method is called GMWMX, with X standing for eXogeneous variable: it is semi-parametric, computationally efficient and scalable. Unlike standard methods such as the widely used Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE), our methodology offers statistical guarantees, such as consistency and asymptotic normality, without relying on strong parametric assumptions. At the Gaussian model, our results show that the estimated parameters are similar to the ones obtained with the MLE. The computational performances of our approach has important practical implications. Indeed, the estimation of the parameters of large networks of thousands of GNSS stations quickly becomes computationally prohibitive. Compared to standard methods, the processing time of the GMWMX is over 1000 times faster and allows the estimation of large scale problems within minutes on a standard computer. We validate the performances of our method via Monte-Carlo simulations by generating GNSS daily position time series with missing observations and we consider composite stochastic noise models including processes presenting long-range dependence such as power-law or Matérn processes. The advantages of our method are also illustrated using real time series from GNSS stations located in the Eastern part of the USA.

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