Table 2 Stability and sensitivity of 10% noisy synthetic DC resistivity sounding data.

From: Nature-inspired stochastic hybrid technique for joint and individual inversion of DC and MT data

Case

Layer parameters

True value

Search range

PSO15

GWO15

vPSOGWO

1

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

2500

1000–5000

2612.9

2747.5

2575.81

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

100

10–1000

10

102.5

100.11

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

300

100–3000

284.2

344.8

297.84

\({h}_{1}\) (m)

1.5

0–20

1.6

1.5

1.48

\({h}_{2}\) (m)

25

1–50

1.0

24.3

24.51

NRMS

0.5901

0.0819

0.0175

2

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

2500

1–5000

2691.4

2687.4

2576.25

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

100

1–1000

106.4

104.7

100.07

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

300

1–3000

325.6

320.8

297.83

\({h}_{1}\) (m)

1.5

0–20

1.5

1.5

1.48

\({h}_{2}\) (m)

25

1–50

26.1

24.3

24.48

NRMS

0.0619

0.0518

0.0179

3

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

2500

1500–5000

2696.5

2686.9

2576.16

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

100

50–1000

112.9

103.7

100.07

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

300

100–3000

339.8

321.6

297.80

\({h}_{1}\) (m)

1.5

1–20

1.5

1.5

1.48

\({h}_{2}\) (m)

25

10–50

33.9

23.9

24.48

NRMS

0.1828

0.0531

0.0178

4

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

2500

1500–3500

2692.7

2688.9

2575.65

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

100

50–150

108.1

105.5

100.09

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

300

200–400

328.1

325.5

297.78

\({h}_{1}\) (m)

1.5

1–2

1.5

1.5

1.48

\({h}_{2}\) (m)

25

15–35

27.9

25.9

24.49

NRMS

0.0833

0.0587

0.0177

5

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

2500

2000–5000

2693.9

2688.4

2575.65

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

100

50–1500

109.2

104.8

100.10

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

300

200–1000

338.1

323.6

297.81

\({h}_{1}\) (m)

1.5

1–50

1.5

1.5

1.48

\({h}_{2}\) (m)

25

15–100

32.3

24.8

24.50

NRMS

0.1522

0.0534

0.0176

6

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

2500

1–3000

2688.9

2690.2

2575.78

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

100

1–200

109.0

107.4

100.09

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

300

1–400

331.4

325.7

297.83

\({h}_{1}\) (m)

1.5

0–2

1.5

1.5

1.48

\({h}_{2}\) (m)

25

1–30

29.4

26.3

24.51

NRMS

0.1056

0.0653

0.0175