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Regional Remote Sensing of Lake Water Transparency Based on Google Earth Engine: Performance of Empirical Algorithm and Machine Learning

Weizhong Zeng    
Ke Xu    
Sihang Cheng    
Lei Zhao and Kun Yang    

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Secchi depth (SD) is a valuable and feasible water quality indicator of lake eutrophication. The establishment of an automated system with efficient image processing and an algorithm suitable for the inversion of transparency in lake-rich regions could provide sufficient temporal and spatial information for lake management. These are especially critical for lake-rich regions where in situ monitoring data are scarce. This study demonstrated the implementation of an atmospheric correction algorithm (ACOLITE algorithm) in conjunction with the Google Earth Engine platform to generate remote-sensing reflectance products of specific points efficiently. The study also evaluated the performance of an algorithm for inverting lake SDs in Yunnan Plateau lakes, which is one of the five lake districts in China, since there is a lack of in situ data for most of the lakes in the region. The in situ data from four lakes with large SD ranges and imagery from Landsat Operational Land Imager were used to train and evaluate the performance of two algorithms: an empirical algorithm (stepwise regression) and machine learning (support vector machines and multi-layer perception). The results revealed that the retrieval accuracy of models with bands and band ratio combinations could be substantially improved compared with models with a single band or band combinations. A negative correlation was also observed between the temporal match between observations and the model accuracy. This study found that the MLP model with sufficient training data was more suitable for transparency estimation of lakes belonging to the dataset; the SVM model was more suitable for transparency prediction outside the training set, regardless of the adequacy of the training data. This study provides a reference for monitoring lakes within the Yunnan region using remote sensing.

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