ArticleHeliyon2022
Field hyperspectral data and OLI8 multispectral imagery for heavy metal content prediction and mapping around an abandoned Pb-Zn mining site in northern Tunisia.
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- Recent Advancements in Digital Management and Monitoring of Mine Waste: Sensors, Characterization, and Predictive Modeling-A Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Hyperspectral estimation of chlorophyll content in grapevine based on feature selection and GA-BP.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Inversion of soil heavy metals in metal tailings area based on different spectral transformation and modeling methods.Heliyon · 2023Article
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Abstract
Mining and smelting releases toxic contaminants such as zinc (Zn), lead (Pb) or cadmium (Cd) into the soil thereby poisoning it and rendering it unproductive. Remotely alternatives have been widely employed in the attempt of estimating heavy metal content within soils. The present study provides a methodological approach based on VNIR-SWIR field hyperspectral data and multispectral Landsat OLI 8 imageries for the prediction and mapping of Pb, Zn and Cd heavy metal contents around the abandoned Jebel Ressas mine site in Northern Tunisia. Thus, eighty-seven soil and tailing samples were collected from the study site and VNIR-SWIR field reflectances were measured on the same collection points, as well. All samples were analysed by atomic absorption for the estimation of heavy metal concentrations. The partial least squares regression PLSR was conducted considering the measured heavy metal concentrations and using multi-scale data: VNIR-SWIR field hyperspectral data and multispectral Landsat OLI 8 imagery. Standard normal variable (SNV) and multiple scatter correction (MSC) preprocessing methods were applied for further mapping improvement. Thus, this work aims to automate the estimation of the heavy metal contents in contaminated soils, by carrying out: a modeling approach based on the PLSR using VNIR-SWIR field hyperspectral data, ii) the mapping of Pb and Zn contents thanks to the exploitation of Landsat OLI8 multispectral imagery and iii) the application of both MSC and SNV preprocessing methods to optimize the performance of the developed models, when using such spectrally and spatially degraded data.
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