Water-Quality Assessment and Pollution-Risk Early-Warning System Based on Web Crawler Technology and LSTM

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Sep 19;19(18):11818. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191811818.

Abstract

The openly released and measured data from automatic hydrological and water quality stations in China provide strong data support for water environmental protection management and scientific research. However, current public data on hydrology and water quality only provide real-time data through data tables in a shared page. To excavate the supporting effect of these data on water environmental protection, this paper designs a water-quality-prediction and pollution-risk early-warning system. In this system, crawler technology was used for data collection from public real-time data. Additionally, a modified long short-term memory (LSTM) was adopted to predict the water quality and provide an early warning for pollution risks. According to geographic information technology, this system can show the process of spatial and temporal variations of hydrology and water quality in China. At the same time, the current and future water quality of important monitoring sites can be quickly evaluated and predicted, together with the pollution-risk early warning. The data collected and the water-quality-prediction technique in the system can be shared and used for supporting hydrology and in water quality research and management.

Keywords: LSTM; machine learning; pollution risk; water quality evaluation; water-quality early-warning system; web crawler.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • China
  • Environmental Monitoring* / methods
  • Forecasting
  • Hydrology
  • Technology
  • Water Quality*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Open Research Fund Program of MNR Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area (SZU51029202010).