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At present, most deep learning prediction models just consider TEC temporal variation, while ignoring the impact of spatial location. In this paper, we propose a TEC prediction model, ED-ConvLSTM, which combines convolutional neural networks with recurrent neural networks to simultaneously consider spatiotemporal features. Our ED-ConvLSTM model is built based on the encoder-decoder architecture, which includes two modules: encoder module and decoder module. Each module is composed of ConvLSTM cells. The encoder module is used to extract the spatiotemporal features from TEC maps, while the decoder module converts spatiotemporal features into predicted TEC maps. We compared the predictive performance of our model with two traditional time series models: LSTM, GRU, a spatiotemporal mode1 ConvGRU, and the TEC daily forecast product C1PG provided by CODE on a total of 135 grid points in East Asia (10\u00b0\u201345\u00b0N, 90\u00b0\u2013130\u00b0E). The experimental results show that the prediction error indicators MAE, RMSE, MAPE, and prediction similarity index SSIM of our model are superior to those of the comparison models in high, normal, and low solar activity years. The paper also analyzed the predictive performance of each model monthly. The experimental results indicate that the predictive performance of each model is influenced by the monthly mean of TEC. The ED-ConvLSTM model proposed in this paper is the least affected and the most stable by the monthly mean of TEC. Additionally, the paper compared the predictive performance of each model during two magnetic storm periods when TEC changes sharply. The results indicate that our ED-ConvLSTM model is least affected during magnetic storms and its predictive performance is superior to those of the comparative models. This paper provides a more stable and high-performance TEC spatiotemporal prediction model.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15123064","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,12]],"date-time":"2023-06-12T03:02:27Z","timestamp":1686538947000},"page":"3064","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Spatiotemporal Prediction of Ionospheric Total Electron Content Based on ED-ConvLSTM"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Liangchao","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Intelligent Emergency Information Processing, Institute of Disaster Prevention, Langfang 065201, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haijun","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Intelligent Emergency Information Processing, Institute of Disaster Prevention, Langfang 065201, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5989-1720","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Huijun","family":"Le","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Institute of Disaster Prevention, Langfang 065201, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9658-9483","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weifeng","family":"Shan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Intelligent Emergency Information Processing, Institute of Disaster Prevention, Langfang 065201, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Institute of Disaster Prevention, Langfang 065201, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guoming","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Intelligent Emergency Information Processing, Institute of Disaster Prevention, Langfang 065201, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chunjie","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Jingwei Textile Machinery New Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing 100176, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junling","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"685","DOI":"10.1016\/S1364-6826(00)00029-8","article-title":"Variability of the ionosphere","volume":"62","author":"Forbes","year":"2000","journal-title":"J. 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