The New Hyperspectral Analysis Method for Distinguishing the Types of Heavy Metal Copper and Lead Pollution Elements.

In recent years, the problem of heavy metal pollution in agriculture caused by industrial development has been particularly prominent, directly affecting food and ecological environmental safety. Hyperspectral remote sensing technology has the advantages of high spectral resolution and nondestructive monitoring. The physiological and biochemical parameters of crops undergo similar changes under different heavy metal stresses. Therefore, it is a great challenge to explore the use of hyperspectral technology to distinguish the types of the heavy metal copper (Cu) and lead (Pb) elements. This is also a hot topic in the current research. In this study, several models are proposed to distinguish copper and lead elements by combining multivariate empirical mode decomposition (MEMD) transformation and machine learning. First, MEMD is introduced to decompose the original spectrum, which effectively removes the noise and highlights and magnifies the weak information of the spectrum. The successive projections algorithm (SPA), competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), and iteratively retaining informative variables (IRIV) were used to screen the characteristic bands and were combined with extreme learning machine (ELM), support vector machine (SVM), and general regression neural network (GRNN) algorithms to build models to distinguish the types of Cu and Pb elements. The quality of the model was evaluated using accuracy (