A Method Based on Improved Ant Colony Algorithm Feature Selection Combined With GA-SVR Model for Predicting Chlorophyll-a Concentration in Ulansuhai Lake

Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) is an important parameter of water bodies, but due to the complexity of optics in water bodies, it is currently difficult to accurately predict Chl-a concentration in water bodies by traditional methods. In this paper, Sentinel-2 remote sensing images is used as the data source combined with measured data, and Ulansuhai Lake is taken as the study area. An adaptive ant colony exhaustive optimization (A-ACEO) algorithm is proposed for feature selection and combined with a novel intelligent algorithm of optimizing support vector regression (SVR) by genetic algorithm (GA) for prediction of Chl-a concentration. The ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is improved to select remote sensing feature bands for Chl-a concentration by introducing relevant optimization strategies. The GA-SVR model is built by optimizing SVR using GA with the selected feature bands as input, and comparing with the traditional SVR model. The simulation results show that under the same conditions, using A-ACEO algorithm to select feature bands as inputs can effectively reduce the model complexity, and improve the model prediction performance, which provides a valuable reference for monitoring Chl-a concentration in lakes.