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Estimation of Pb and Cd Content in Soil Using Sentinel-2A Multispectral Images Based on Ensemble Learning
Summary
This paper is not relevant to microplastics research — it develops machine learning models using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery to estimate lead and cadmium concentrations in soil near a mining area in China.
With the increasing economic growth in developing nations, soil heavy metal pollution has become a growing concern. Monitoring the heavy metal concentration in soil through remote sensing is crucial for safeguarding the ecological environment. However, the current indoor spectral measurement method has limitations, such as the discrete soil sampling space and weak spectral characteristics of soil heavy metals, leading to a poor robustness of remote sensing inversion models. This study presents a novel approach to address these challenges by incorporating a spatial feature of pollution sources and sinks to evaluate the spatial factors affecting pollutant diffusion and concentration. An integrated learning model, combining spatial and spectral information, is developed to estimate heavy metal content in soil using Sentinel-2A satellite data. A total of 235 soil samples were collected in Jiyuan, China, and the effective spectral transformation characteristics of Sentinel-2A data were screened. The impact of spectral characteristics, topographic characteristics, and spatial characteristics on retrieving soil heavy metal lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) content were analyzed. The optimal inversion method was determined through various integrated learning models, and the spatial distribution of heavy metals Pb and Cd was mapped. The results indicate that the accuracy of the inversion model was significantly improved by incorporating terrain features and spatial features of pollution sources. The Blending integrated learning method showed a 65.9% and 73.2% reduction in the RMSE of Pb and Cd, respectively, compared to other regression models. With R2 values of 0.9486 and 0.9489 for Pb and Cd, respectively, and a MAPE less than 0.2, the Blending model demonstrated high prediction accuracy.
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