Table 4 Stability and sensitivity of 10% noisy synthetic MT 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)

30,000

5000–50,000

49,957.1

25,517.3

29,931.73

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

5000

1000–25,000

4754.7

4039.4

5641.31

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

1000

50–5000

987.2

986.3

975.40

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

15,000

5000–25,000

13,383.5

16,897.1

14,392

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

18,000

10,000–25,000

21,432.2

18,436.2

18,123

NRMS

0.3140

0.1233

0.0612

2

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

30,000

100–50,000

25,958.2

31,545.5

29,932.41

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

5000

1000–20,000

4429.5

4333.2

5631.63

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

1000

1–5000

1028.3

989.9

975.32

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

15,000

5000–25,000

16,200.0

15,374.4

14,408

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

18,000

10,000–25,000

17,500.5

19,757.4

18,134

NRMS

0.0885

0.0784

0.0603

3

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

30,000

10–50,000

49,890.8

19,159.8

29,929.64

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

5000

10–20,000

4703.4

2904.5

5635.90

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

1000

10–5000

982.4

980.8

975.37

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

15,000

10,000–25,000

13,473.0

21,197.5

14,402

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

18,000

10,000–25,000

21,425.6

15,646.3

18,111

NRMS

0.3131

0.3144

0.0607

4

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

30,000

100–50,000

31,545.5

48,149.9

29,932.67

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

5000

1000–20,000

5448.3

4333.2

5629.68

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

1000

1–5000

1002.2

989.9

975.36

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

15,000

5000–25,000

15,374.4

12,265.2

14,403

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

18,000

10,000–25,000

21,522.4

19,757.4

18,122

NRMS

0.0996

0.2921

0.0602

5

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

30,000

25,000–50,000

44,017.0

37,231.1

29,926.91

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

5000

1000–20,000

4749.5

4480.9

5635.87

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

1000

500–5000

988.8

989.0

975.37

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

15,000

10,000–25,000

13,652.9

14,549.2

14,400

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

18,000

15,000–30,000

21,104.7

20,491.1

18,123

NRMS

0.2275

0.1335

0.0607

6

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

30,000

25,000–35,000

28,877.0

25,691.5

29,932.70

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

5000

1000–10,000

4153.2

4108.9

5640.98

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

1000

500–5000

987.2

987.5

975.40

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

15,000

10,000–20,000

16,068.1

16,734.4

14,393

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

18,000

15,000–25,000

19,277.3

18,465.9

18,121

NRMS

0.0898

0.1154

0.0612