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However, in the absence of ground weather station data, such models often need to be supplemented according to satellite remote sensing data. The performance of Himawari-7 satellite inversion of Rd was evaluated in the study, and hybrid models were established (XGBoost_DE, XGBoost_FPA, XGBoost_GOA, and XGBoost_GWO), so as to improve the satellite data and achieve a better utilization effect. The meteorological data of 14 Rd stations in mainland China from 2011 to 2015 were used. Four input combinations (L1\u2013L4) and eight input combinations (S1\u2013S8) of meteorological factors corresponding to satellite remote sensing data were used for model simulation, while two optimal combinations (S7 and S8) were selected for cross-station application. The results revealed that the accuracy of Himawari-7 satellite Rd data was low, with RMSE, R2, MAE, and MBE values of 2.498 MJ\u00b7m\u22122\u00b7d\u22121, 0.617, 1.799 MJ\u00b7m\u22122\u00b7d\u22121, and 0.323 MJ\u00b7m\u22122\u00b7d\u22121, respectively. The performance of these coupled models based on satellite data was significantly improved. The RMSE and MAE values increased by 15.5% and 9.4%, respectively, while the R2 value decreased by 10.9 %. Compared with others based on satellite data, the XGBoost_GOA model exhibited optimal performance. The mean values of RMSE, R2, and MAE were 1.63 MJ\u00b7m\u22122\u00b7d\u22121, 0.76 and 1.21 MJ\u00b7m\u22122\u00b7d\u22121, respectively. The XGBoost_GWO model exhibited optimal performance in the cross-station application, and the average RMSE value was reduced by 2.3\u201310.5% compared with the other models. The meteorological factors input by the models exhibited different levels of significance in different scenarios. Rd_s was the main meteorological parameter that affected the model based on satellite data, while RH exhibited a significant improvement in the XGBoost_FPA and XGBoost_GWO models based on ground weather stations data. Accordingly, the present authors believe that the XGBoost_GOA model has excellent ability for simulating Rd, while the XGBoost_GWO model allows for cross-station simulation of Rd from satellite data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15071885","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,3]],"date-time":"2023-04-03T01:37:05Z","timestamp":1680485825000},"page":"1885","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Simulation of Diffuse Solar Radiation with Tree-Based Evolutionary Hybrid Models and Satellite Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Shuting","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Hydraulic and Ecological Engineering, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang 330099, China"},{"name":"Institute of Water-Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8268-1609","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Youzhen","family":"Xiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Water-Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas of Ministry of Education, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1210-5411","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lifeng","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Hydraulic and Ecological Engineering, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang 330099, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoqiang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Water-Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jianhua","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6659-3262","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fucang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Water-Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhijun","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Hydraulic and Ecological Engineering, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang 330099, China"},{"name":"Institute of Water-Saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yaokui","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of RS and GIS, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"63","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jclepro.2017.12.065","article-title":"Prediction of hourly solar radiation in Abu Musa Island using machine learning algorithms","volume":"176","author":"Khosravi","year":"2018","journal-title":"J. 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