dubi̇ted

Duzce University Journal of Science and Technology

2148-2446

Duzce University

10.29130/dubited.1809519

Deep Learning Environmentally Sustainable Engineering

Derin Öğrenme Çevresel Olarak Sürdürülebilir Mühendislik

Çok Değişkenli Baraj Doluluk Oranı Tahmini için Kalıntı Tabanlı Hibrit BiLSTM–XGBoost Modeli: İstanbul Örneği

A Residual-Based Hybrid BiLSTM–XGBoost Model for Multivariate Dam Fill Rate Forecasting: The Case of Istanbul

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3394-7113

Canlı

Hikmet

İSTANBUL GEDİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ

04 19 2026

14 2 381 395 10 23 2025 01 21 2026

2013

Duzce University Journal of Science and Technology

Küresel ısınma ve iklim değişikliği, dünya genelinde su kaynaklarını tehdit ederek sürdürülebilir su yönetimini zorlaştırmaktadır. Barajlar, özellikle İstanbul gibi büyük şehirlerde su temini açısından kritik öneme sahiptir. Bu çalışmada, İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Açık Veri Portalı’ndan elde edilen farklı veri setleri, günlük yağış, su tüketimi ve baraj doluluk oranları ile birleştirilerek baraj doluluk oranlarının tahmin edilmesi amaçlanmıştır. LSTM, Bi-LSTM, XGBoost ve Prophet gibi zaman serisi modelleri kullanılarak yapılan tahminlerin doğruluğu RMSE, MAE ve R² metrikleri ile değerlendirilmiştir. Sonuçlar, LSTM ve Bi-LSTM modellerinin en düşük hata oranlarıyla en başarılı performansı sergilediğini, Prophet modelinin ise en düşük doğruluğa sahip olduğunu göstermiştir. Elde edilen bulgular, derin öğrenmeye dayalı modellerin baraj su seviyesi tahmini için daha etkili bir yöntem olduğunu vurgulamakta ve bu tür modellerin sürdürülebilir su yönetimi açısından önemini ortaya koymaktadır.

Global climate change and increasing water demand pose serious challenges for sustainable water resource management, particularly in large metropolitan areas such as Istanbul. Accurate forecasting of dam fill rates is therefore critical for proactive water management and drought mitigation strategies. In this study, we propose a Residual-Based Hybrid BiLSTM–XGBoost (RBH-BiLSTM-XGB) model to forecast dam fill rates using multivariate time series data, including daily precipitation, water consumption, and historical reservoir levels obtained from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Open Data Portal. The proposed approach combines the temporal dependency learning capability of Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) networks with the residual error modeling strength of XGBoost, enabling the correction of systematic prediction errors produced by deep learning models. The proposed hybrid model is evaluated against standalone LSTM, BiLSTM, XGBoost, and Prophet models under different training–testing split scenarios (70–30%, 80–20%, and 90–10%). Model performance is assessed using RMSE, MAE, MAPE, and R² metrics. Experimental results demonstrate that the RBH-BiLSTM-XGB model consistently outperforms all benchmark models, achieving the lowest RMSE (0.0059), MAPE (0.66–0.86%), and the highest explanatory power (R² ≈ 0.9994). While deep learning models effectively capture long-term temporal dependencies, tree-based models such as XGBoost are shown to be effective in learning residual structures that deep networks fail to model. In contrast, the Prophet model exhibits poor performance due to its additive structure and limited capacity to represent complex multivariate interactions. The findings highlight the effectiveness of residual-based hybrid modeling for dam fill rate forecasting and demonstrate the potential of integrating deep learning and ensemble learning approaches to support data-driven and sustainable water resource management.

Deep Learning Sustainable water management Time series models

Sürdürülebilir su yönetimi Zaman serisi modelleri Derin öğrenme

This research received no external funding.

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