Abstract:The identification of poisonous plants is the prerequisite for investigating their distribution,assessing the damage degree as well as their scientific control.Developing a fast and efficient technology for identifying poisonous plants in large scales is of great significance for the restoration of degrading grassland.In this study,SOC710VP near-infrared hyperspectral imager was used to obtain the spectral data of 11 major poisonous plants in alpine meadows.The hyperspectral data were preprocessed using Savitzky-Golay smoothing processing,derivative transformation,normalization transformation,mean centralization and logarithmic transformation.Following that,principal component analysis(PCA) was used to reduce the dimension of the preprocessed data. The classification models including random forest(RF),support vector machine-radial kernel function(SVM-RBF),K-nearest algorithm(Knn),naive Bayes(NB) and decision tree(DT),were then used for classification test.The overall accuracy of the confusion matrix was employed as the test standard to select a suitable classification model for identifying the primary poisonous plants in alpine meadow.The results showed that among six mathematical data transformation,the logarithmic transformation was the best showing the largest difference in spectral reflection among samples.The cumulative variance contribution rate of PC1 and PC2 in PCA by logarithmic transformation,smoothing and mean centralization transformation were more than 85%.Among the five classification algorithms,the SVM-RBF algorithm had the highest classification accuracy of 99.35%.When the first eight principal components were used for classification,the rank of classification accuracy followed the order of SVM-RBF>RF>NB>Knn>DT.