Spatiotemporal pattern validation of chlorophyll-a concentrations in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, using a comparative MODIS image mining approach

    Authors

    N. B. Chang; Y. J. Yang; A. Daranpob; K. R. Jin;T. James

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Int. J. Remote Sens.

    Keywords

    WATER-QUALITY; OCEAN COLOR; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; BIOOPTICAL; ALGORITHMS; THEMATIC MAPPER; COASTAL WATERS; NEURAL-NETWORK; TROPHIC; STATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBTROPICAL LAKE; Remote Sensing; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology

    Abstract

    A comparative analysis was conducted using three types of data-mining models produced from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra Surface Reflectance 1-day or 8-day composite images to estimate chlorophyll-a (chl-a) concentrations in Lake Okeechobee, Florida. To understand the pros and cons of these three models, a genetic programming (GP) model was compared to an artificial neural network (ANN) model and multiple linear regression (MLR) model with respect to two different data sets related to model formulation. The first data set included the MODIS Terra bands from 1 to 7; the second data set extended the first data set by adding environmental parameters such as Secchi disc depth (SDD), total suspended solids (TSS), wind speed, water level, rainfall and air temperature collected around the lake in 2003 and 2004. The GP algorithm, which has an advantage in machine learning allowing us to select the appropriate input parameters that significantly impact the prediction accuracy, outperformed the other two models based on four statistical indices. Specifically, the GP modelling outputs revealed interesting determinations of chl-a concentrations for MODIS bands 3, 5, 6 and 7, corresponding to wavelengths 459-479, 1230-1250, 1628-1652 and 2105-2155 nm, respectively. The number of training data points is limited; therefore, the inclusion of additional environmental variables cannot improve the prediction accuracy of the GP-derived chl-a concentrations.

    Journal Title

    International Journal of Remote Sensing

    Volume

    33

    Issue/Number

    7

    Publication Date

    1-1-2012

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    2233

    Last Page

    2260

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000302162200013

    ISSN

    0143-1161

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