jfdev001/mars-ml-mtsu-honors-thesis

Honors undergraduate thesis end-to-end machine learning project for weather prediction on Mars.

Honors Undergraduate Thesis in Machine Learning for Weather Prediction on Mars

An end-to-end machine learning project in which I used tensorflow to construct recurrent neural nets and convolutional neural nets as well as scikit-learn to construct linear regression and random forests for multi-step ahead time series prediction of mean ambient air temperature for a region of Mars known as the Gale Crater.

Installation

It is recommended to use Miniconda or Anaconda to install the packages for the repository.

To install the environment without GPU acceleration, run the following commands:

conda install tensorflow scikit-learn statsmodels pandas numpy scipy requests beautifulsoup4

conda install -c conda-forge matplotlib keras-tuner tqdm

To install the environment with GPU acceleration, run the following commands:

conda install tensorflow-gpu scikit-learn statsmodels pandas numpy scipy requests beautifulsoup4

conda install -c conda-forge matplotlib keras-tuner tqdm

Data

Sols 1 through 2837 were scraped from the REDUCED_DATA archive for the NASA Curiosity Rover Environmental Monitoring System (REMS) available through the Mars Science Laboratory using requests and beautifulsoup4. Specifically, the REMS MODRDR data was used since this is the most processed and therefore best prepared for data analysis. The REMS_DESCRIPTION.txt (link) describes the instruments and operational capabilities of Curiosity's REMS. The REMS_MORDR_DS.CAT (link) describes the MODRDR cleaned data. The MODRDR6.FMT (link) describes the format of the MODRDR data files. Notably, the MODRDR data files have the suffix RMD (link).

Report

The docs folder contains the thesis itself with all findings and methods included.

Future Work and Reflections

I will likely use an open source MLOps library such as neptune-client in the future because tracking hyperparameters using yaml proved to be a fairly annoying task.