Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs14061384
Keywords
rice growth variables; unmanned aerial system; multispectral imagery; digital imagery; random forest model
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Funding
- Key R&D Plan of Shandong Province [2019JZZY010713]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFE0107000]
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This study used unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to rapidly and accurately acquire rice growth variables, which are useful for assessing rice growth and precision fertilization. The results showed that different nitrogen treatments had a significant impact on rice growth variables. Prediction models were built using spectral indices derived from visible and NIR images and key rice growth variables measured in the field, achieving high accuracy.
The rapid and accurate acquisition of rice growth variables using unmanned aerial system (UAS) is useful for assessing rice growth and variable fertilization in precision agriculture. In this study, rice plant height (PH), leaf area index (LAI), aboveground biomass (AGB), and nitrogen nutrient index (NNI) were obtained for different growth periods in field experiments with different nitrogen (N) treatments from 2019-2020. Known spectral indices derived from the visible and NIR images and key rice growth variables measured in the field at different growth periods were used to build a prediction model using the random forest (RF) algorithm. The results showed that the different N fertilizer applications resulted in significant differences in rice growth variables; the correlation coefficients of PH and LAI with visible-near infrared (V-NIR) images at different growth periods were larger than those with visible (V) images while the reverse was true for AGB and NNI. RF models for estimating key rice growth variables were established using V-NIR images and V images, and the results were validated with an R-2 value greater than 0.8 for all growth stages. The accuracy of the RF model established from V images was slightly higher than that established from V-NIR images. The RF models were further tested using V images from 2019: R-2 values of 0.75, 0.75, 0.72, and 0.68 and RMSE values of 11.68, 1.58, 3.74, and 0.13 were achieved for PH, LAI, AGB, and NNI, respectively, demonstrating that RGB UAS achieved the same performance as multispectral UAS for monitoring rice growth.
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