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May 16, 2024

Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for the Estimation of the Concentration of Total Suspended Solids in the Colorado River Using Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager Data

Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2024

ABSTRACT

The Colorado River housing several dams is a source of water to about 40 million people and 5.5 million acres of farmlands in the western United States of America and the Republic of Mexico. The quality of water in the river system is impacted by several factors, including river modifications, anthropogenic activities, and drought events. Total suspended solids (TSS) are one of the water quality parameters (WQPs) that impair the quality of the river’s water. Increased concentration of TSS increases its turbidity, thereby reducing light penetrability into the water for aquatic photosynthetic processes. Assessing and managing the concentrations of TSS in waterbodies is important to understand the changes they undergo to take pragmatic steps in protecting and restoring the quality of the water and to ensure the sustenance of the limited water resources. Monitoring of TSS has been performed using traditional approaches involving laboratory analysis and field sampling. Conducting WQP assessment on a waterbody like the Colorado River is however labor and capital-intensive due to the length and the extent of the river. Remote sensing, however, provides an alternative to WQP monitoring due to its potential benefits in offering spatiotemporal coverage as well as their cost-effectiveness. This study utilized satellite images from the 30 m resolution Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager applied machine learning (ML) regression models including gradient boosting machines or regressor, bagging, random forest, and eXtreme gradient boosting for the estimation of the concentration of optically active TSS. Results produced showed varying performance of the ML for the TSS estimations with R2 > 0.40. The study found the RF model to be the optimal model for TSS estimations with the Landsat 8 OLI with reported R2, RMSE, and MAE of 0.90, 32.80 mg/L, and 22.91 mg/L, respectively.

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Godson Ebenezer Adjovu [email protected]
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Sajjad Ahmad, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE [email protected]
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