UAV- and machine learning-based retrieval of wheat SPAD values at the overwintering stage for variety screening

Wang, Jianjun; Zhou, Qi; Shang, Jiali; Liu, Chang; Zhuang, Tingxuan; Ding, Junjie; Xian, Yunyu; Zhao, Lingtian; Wang, Weiling; Zhou, Guisheng; Tan, Changwei; Huo, Zhongyang

UAV- and machine learning-based retrieval of wheat SPAD values at the overwintering stage for variety screening

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creativework.keywords - en: Winter wheat; Blé d'hiver; Apprentissage automatique; Machine learning
creativework.keywords - fr: Drones; Drone aircraft; Imagerie multispectrale; Multispectral imaging
dc.contributor.author: Wang, Jianjun; Zhou, Qi; Shang, Jiali; Liu, Chang; Zhuang, Tingxuan; Ding, Junjie; Xian, Yunyu; Zhao, Lingtian; Wang, Weiling; Zhou, Guisheng; Tan, Changwei; Huo, Zhongyang
dc.date.accepted: 2021-12-16
dc.date.accessioned: 2024-10-07T19:35:39Z
dc.date.available: 2024-10-07T19:35:39Z
dc.date.issued: 2021-12-20
dc.date.submitted: 2021-10-27
dc.description.abstract - en: In recent years, the delay in sowing has become a major obstacle to high wheat yield in Jiangsu Province, one of the major wheat producing areas in China; hence, it is necessary to screen wheat varieties are resilient for late sowing. This study aimed to provide an effective, fast, and non-destructive monitoring method of soil plant analysis development (SPAD) values, which can represent leaf chlorophyll contents, for late-sown winter wheat variety screening. This study acquired multispectral images using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at the overwintering stage of winter wheat growth, and further processed these images to extract reflectance of five single spectral bands and calculated 26 spectral vegetation indices. Based on these 31 variables, this study combined three variable selection methods (i.e., recursive feature elimination (RFE), random forest (RF), and Pearson correlation coefficient (r)) with four machine learning algorithms (i.e., random forest regression (RFR), linear kernel-based support vector regression (SVR), radial basis function (RBF) kernel-based SVR, and sigmoid kernel-based SVR), resulted in seven SVR models (i.e., RFE-SVR_linear, RF-SVR_linear, RF-SVR_RBF, RF-SVR_sigmoid, r-SVR_linear, r-SVR_RBF, and r-SVR_sigmoid) and three RFR models (i.e., RFE-RFR, RF-RFR, and r-RFR). The performances of the 10 machine learning models were evaluated and compared with each other according to the achieved coefficient of determination (R2), residual prediction deviation (RPD), root mean square error (RMSE), and relative RMSE (RRMSE) in SPAD estimation. Of the 10 models, the best one was the RF-SVR_sigmoid model, which was the combination of the RF variable selection method and the sigmoid kernel-based SVR algorithm. It achieved high accuracy in estimating SPAD values of the wheat canopy (R2 = 0.754, RPD = 2.017, RMSE = 1.716 and RRMSE = 4.504%). The newly developed UAV- and machine learning-based model provided a promising and real time method to monitor chlorophyll contents at the overwintering stage, which can benefit late-sown winter wheat variety screening.
dc.identifier.citation: Wang, J., Zhou, Q., Shang, J., Liu, C., Zhuang, T., Ding, J., Xian, Y., Zhao, L., Wang, W., Zhou, G., Tan, C., & Huo, Z. (2021). UAV- and machine learning-based retrieval of wheat SPAD values at the overwintering stage for variety screening. Remote Sensing, 13(24), Article 5166. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13245166
dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13245166
dc.identifier.issn: 2072-4292
dc.identifier.uri: https://open-science.canada.ca/handle/123456789/3020
dc.language.iso: en
dc.publisher: MDPI
dc.rights - en: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights - fr: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.openaccesslevel - en: Gold
dc.rights.openaccesslevel - fr: Or
dc.rights.uri - en: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights.uri - fr: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fr
dc.subject - en: Agriculture; Science and technology
dc.subject - fr: Agriculture; Sciences et technologie
dc.subject.en - en: Agriculture; Science and technology
dc.subject.fr - fr: Agriculture; Sciences et technologie
dc.title - en: UAV- and machine learning-based retrieval of wheat SPAD values at the overwintering stage for variety screening
dc.type - en: Article
dc.type - fr: Article
local.acceptedmanuscript.articlenum: 5166
local.article.journalissue: 24
local.article.journaltitle: Remote Sensing
local.article.journalvolume: 13
local.pagination: 1-19
local.peerreview - en: Yes
local.peerreview - fr: Oui
local.requestdoi: No