Estimation Methods for Soil Mercury Content Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

作者：Li Zhao, Yueming Hu, Wu Zhou, Zhenhua Liu, Yuchun Pan, Zhou Shi, Lu Wang, Guangxing Wang · 发表于：Sustainability · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.3390/su10072474 · 被引用次数：72 · 研究领域：Remote-Sensing Image Classification、Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping、Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Mercury is one of the five most toxic heavy metals to the human body. In order to select a high-precision method for predicting the mercury content in soil using hyperspectral techniques, 75 soil samples were collected in Guangdong Province to obtain the soil mercury content by chemical analysis and hyperspectral data based on an indoor hyperspectral experiment. A multiple linear regression (MLR), a back-propagation neural network (BPNN), and a genetic algorithm optimization of the BPNN (GA-BPNN) were used to establish a relationship between the hyperspectral data and the soil mercury content and to predict the soil mercury content. In addition, the feasibility and modeling effects of the three modeling methods were compared and discussed. The results show that the GA-BPNN provided the best soil mercury prediction model. The modeling R2 is 0.842, the root mean square error (RMSE) is 0.052, and the mean absolute error (MAE) is 0.037; the testing R2 is 0.923, the RMSE is 0.042, and the MAE is 0.033. Thus, the GA-BPNN method is the optimum method to predict soil mercury content and the results provide a scientific basis and technical support for the hyperspectral inversion of the soil mercury content.