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Article

Graph Neural Network-Based Spatio-Temporal Feature Modeling and Wave Height Reconstruction for Distributed Pressure Sensor Wave Measurement Signals

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Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China
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Beihai Marine Technology Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266033, China
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Laoshan National Laboratory, Qingdao 266071, China
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Appl. Sci. 2026, 16(9), 4073; https://doi.org/10.3390/app16094073
Submission received: 1 April 2026 / Revised: 17 April 2026 / Accepted: 17 April 2026 / Published: 22 April 2026
(This article belongs to the Section Marine Science and Engineering)

Abstract

Accurate measurement of ocean wave parameters is paramount for offshore engineering design and marine environmental monitoring. Distributed pressure sensing technology provides a robust data foundation for analyzing the spatio-temporal characteristics of wave fields through synchronized observations at multiple stations. However, multi-sensor data exhibit high-dimensional spatio-temporal coupling, posing significant challenges for traditional single-point signal processing methods in capturing the topological associations between measurement sites. To address these limitations, this study develops a framework for spatio-temporal feature modeling and wave height reconstruction based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). The proposed framework integrates the spatial configuration of sensor arrays with graph-theoretic topological representations. By fusing geometric distances and signal correlations, an adaptive adjacency matrix is constructed to establish a dynamically adjustable graph structure. On the feature extraction level, a spatio-temporal fusion method combining multi-scale graph convolutions and gated temporal modeling is proposed. The experimental results obtained on the Blancs Sablons Bay multi-sensor dataset demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms traditional approaches, achieving lower prediction errors and validating the effectiveness of graph-structured modeling in distributed wave sensing.
Keywords: distributed pressure sensing; wave measurement; graph neural network; spatio-temporal feature modeling; wave height reconstruction distributed pressure sensing; wave measurement; graph neural network; spatio-temporal feature modeling; wave height reconstruction

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Yang, Z.; Yang, M.; Wu, G. Graph Neural Network-Based Spatio-Temporal Feature Modeling and Wave Height Reconstruction for Distributed Pressure Sensor Wave Measurement Signals. Appl. Sci. 2026, 16, 4073. https://doi.org/10.3390/app16094073

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Yang Z, Yang M, Wu G. Graph Neural Network-Based Spatio-Temporal Feature Modeling and Wave Height Reconstruction for Distributed Pressure Sensor Wave Measurement Signals. Applied Sciences. 2026; 16(9):4073. https://doi.org/10.3390/app16094073

Chicago/Turabian Style

Yang, Zhao, Min Yang, and Guojun Wu. 2026. "Graph Neural Network-Based Spatio-Temporal Feature Modeling and Wave Height Reconstruction for Distributed Pressure Sensor Wave Measurement Signals" Applied Sciences 16, no. 9: 4073. https://doi.org/10.3390/app16094073

APA Style

Yang, Z., Yang, M., & Wu, G. (2026). Graph Neural Network-Based Spatio-Temporal Feature Modeling and Wave Height Reconstruction for Distributed Pressure Sensor Wave Measurement Signals. Applied Sciences, 16(9), 4073. https://doi.org/10.3390/app16094073

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