PMID- 27195692 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170707 LR - 20181101 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 5 DP - 2016 TI - An Improved DINEOF Algorithm for Filling Missing Values in Spatio-Temporal Sea Surface Temperature Data. PG - e0155928 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0155928 [doi] LID - e0155928 AB - In this study, an improved Data INterpolating Empirical Orthogonal Functions (DINEOF) algorithm for determination of missing values in a spatio-temporal dataset is presented. Compared with the ordinary DINEOF algorithm, the iterative reconstruction procedure until convergence based on every fixed EOF to determine the optimal EOF mode is not necessary and the convergence criterion is only reached once in the improved DINEOF algorithm. Moreover, in the ordinary DINEOF algorithm, after optimal EOF mode determination, the initial matrix with missing data will be iteratively reconstructed based on the optimal EOF mode until the reconstruction is convergent. However, the optimal EOF mode may be not the best EOF for some reconstructed matrices generated in the intermediate steps. Hence, instead of using asingle EOF to fill in the missing data, in the improved algorithm, the optimal EOFs for reconstruction are variable (because the optimal EOFs are variable, the improved algorithm is called VE-DINEOF algorithm in this study). To validate the accuracy of the VE-DINEOF algorithm, a sea surface temperature (SST) data set is reconstructed by using the DINEOF, I-DINEOF (proposed in 2015) and VE-DINEOF algorithms. Four parameters (Pearson correlation coefficient, signal-to-noise ratio, root-mean-square error, and mean absolute difference) are used as a measure of reconstructed accuracy. Compared with the DINEOF and I-DINEOF algorithms, the VE-DINEOF algorithm can significantly enhance the accuracy of reconstruction and shorten the computational time. FAU - Ping, Bo AU - Ping B AD - School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China. FAU - Su, Fenzhen AU - Su F AD - Laboratory of Resource and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. FAU - Meng, Yunshan AU - Meng Y AD - Laboratory of Resource and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. AD - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20160519 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 SB - IM MH - *Algorithms MH - Data Accuracy MH - Datasets as Topic/standards MH - *Oceans and Seas MH - Signal-To-Noise Ratio MH - *Temperature PMC - PMC4873229 COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2016/05/20 06:00 MHDA- 2017/07/08 06:00 PMCR- 2016/05/19 CRDT- 2016/05/20 06:00 PHST- 2015/09/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/05/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/05/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/05/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/07/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/05/19 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-15-42673 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0155928 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2016 May 19;11(5):e0155928. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155928. eCollection 2016.