“…PCA is again popularly used as a dimension reduction or feature extraction step [ 60 , 61 , 64 , 65 , 68 , 70 , 71 , 73 ], or for exploratory analysis [ 62 , 72 , 157 ]. Once the spectra are remapped using PCA, a classifier or regression model is employed such as an extreme learning machine (ELM) [ 71 ], LDA [ 68 ], SVM [ 60 , 64 , 73 ], PLSR [ 65 ], or ANN [ 70 ]. An alternative to dimension reduction is utilizing the high dimensionality spectral data directly with a node-based algorithm such as ANN [ 72 , 158 , 159 ] and CNN [ 160 , 161 ].…”