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  • Geospatial Analysis
  • Toxicology

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  • Arsenic contamination poses a global health risk, affecting over 200 million people.
  • Existing arsenic detection methods are costly, time-consuming, and not scalable for widespread use, especially in developing regions or during health crises.
  • There is a critical need for innovative, accessible, and sustainable arsenic detection technologies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the potential of using NASA's Hyperion satellite hyperspectral data for assessing soil arsenic concentration.
  • To establish a correlation between soil's hyperspectral signatures and arsenic levels using machine learning.
  • To develop a classification approach for identifying high-risk arsenic regions using remote sensing data.

Main Methods:

  • Processing of Hyperion satellite hyperspectral data, including atmospheric correction and noise reduction.
  • Application of four regression machine learning models to determine the relationship between spectral data and arsenic concentration in bare soil.
  • Utilizing data augmentation, Genetic Algorithm, Second Derivative Transformation, and Random Forest regression for optimal model performance.
  • Employing three binary classification machine learning models to detect arsenic risk in shrub-covered areas across ten U.S. states.

Main Results:

  • A combination of data augmentation, Genetic Algorithm, Second Derivative Transformation, and Random Forest regression achieved a high correlation (R²=0.840) and low error (normalized RMSE=0.122) in bare soil.
  • The developed hyperspectral satellite data approach outperformed previous methods despite using noisier data compared to lab samples.
  • Classification models demonstrated strong performance in identifying high-risk shrub-covered regions, with an accuracy of 0.693 and an F1-score of 0.728.

Conclusions:

  • Satellite-based hyperspectral data analysis is a practical and effective method for detecting soil arsenic concentration.
  • This methodology offers a sustainable and scalable alternative to traditional arsenic detection techniques.
  • The findings support the use of remote sensing for environmental monitoring and public health protection against arsenic contamination.