Spatiotemporal Distribution of Cyanobacteria in Tropical Freshwater Reservoir and Machine Learning Prediction using Explainable Artificial Intelligence
摘要
Cyanobacteria is an indicator for freshwater ecosystem health. This study aims to (a) simulate the spatial distribution of cyanobacteria dynamics; and (b) optimize machine learning (ML) models with explainable artificial intelligence for cyanobacteria prediction in tropical freshwater lake. The water quality parameters (e.g. cyanobacteria concentration (μg/L), chlorophyll concentration (μg/L), turbidity, and cell count) were analysed from eleven sampling stations in Tasik Kenyir. The cyanobacteria dynamics was modelled via GeoPhyton analysis. Linear Regression (LR), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), were optimized to assess predictive performance. Strong temporal variability observed major peak in August and October 2024. High predictive capabilities were obtained by LR (training R2 = 0.9435; testing R2 = 0.9902), ANN (training R2 = 0.9660; testing R2 = 0.9739), and XGBoost (training R2 = 1.000; testing R2 = 0.7468). Feature importance analysis using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) identified cell count and chlorophyll as the dominant predictors.