Identification of agricultural surface source pollution in plain river network areas based on 3D-EEMs and convolutional neural networks

Water Sci Technol. 2024 Apr;89(8):1961-1980. doi: 10.2166/wst.2024.122. Epub 2024 Apr 15.

Abstract

Agricultural non-point sources, as major sources of organic pollution, continue to flow into the river network area of the Jiangnan Plain, posing a serious threat to the quality of water bodies, the ecological environment, and human health. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a method that can accurately identify various types of agricultural organic pollution to prevent the water ecosystems in the region from significant organic pollution. In this study, a network model called RA-GoogLeNet is proposed for accurately identifying agricultural organic pollution in the river network area of the Jiangnan Plain. RA-GoogLeNet uses fluorescence spectral data of agricultural non-point source water quality in Changzhou Changdang Lake Basin, based on GoogLeNet architecture, and adds an efficient channel attention (ECA) mechanism to its A-Inception module, which enables the model to automatically learn the importance of independent channel features. ResNet are used to connect each A-Reception module. The experimental results show that RA-GoogLeNet performs well in fluorescence spectral classification of water quality, with an accuracy of 96.3%, which is 1.2% higher than the baseline model, and has good recall and F1 score. This study provides powerful technical support for the traceability of agricultural organic pollution.

Keywords: agricultural non-point source pollution; attention mechanism; convolutional neural network; deep learning; plain river network areas; three-dimensional fluorescence.

MeSH terms

  • Agriculture*
  • China
  • Environmental Monitoring* / methods
  • Neural Networks, Computer*
  • Rivers* / chemistry
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical / analysis
  • Water Pollution / analysis

Substances

  • Water Pollutants, Chemical