Title
Water-Quality Classification of Inland Lakes Using Landsat8 Images by Convolutional Neural Networks.
Abstract
Water-quality monitoring of inland lakes is essential for freshwater-resource protection. In situ water-quality measurements and ratings are accurate but high costs limit their usage. Water-quality monitoring using remote sensing has shown to be cost-effective. However, the nonoptically active parameters that mainly determine water-quality levels in China are difficult to estimate because of their weak optical characteristics and lack of explicit correlation between remote-sensing images and parameters. To address the problems, a convolutional neural network (CNN) with hierarchical structure was designed to represent the relationship between Landsat8 images and in situ water-quality levels. A transfer-learning strategy in the CNN model was introduced to deal with the lack of in situ measurement data. After the CNN model was trained by spatially and temporally matched Landsat8 images and in situ water-quality data that were collected from official websites, the surface quality of the whole water body could be classified. We tested the CNN model at the Erhai and Chaohu lakes in China, respectively. The experiment results demonstrate that the CNN model outperformed widely used machine-learning methods. The trained model at Erhai Lake can be used for the water-quality classification of Chaohu Lake. The introduced CNN model and the water-quality classification method could cover the whole lake with low costs. The proposed method has potential in inland-lake monitoring.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/rs11141674
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
water-quality classification,convolutional neural network,transfer learning
Computer vision,Convolutional neural network,Artificial intelligence,Geology,Water quality
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
11
14
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fangling Pu1357.24
Chujiang Ding200.34
Zeyi Chao310.73
Yue Yu400.68
Xin Xu516240.08