Journal
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.957870
Keywords
leaf area index (LAI); vegetation index (VI); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); remote sensing (RS); texture; wavelet; rice
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- Key R&D projects in Hubei Province
- [2020BBB058]
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This research developed a method to improve the accuracy of rice LAI estimation by combining spectral information and texture information. The results showed that the accuracy of LAI estimation by combining the two types of information was higher than using spectral information alone and not sensitive to the emergence of panicles. This method has great potential for large-scale auxiliary rice breeding and field management research.
Estimating the crop leaf area index (LAI) accurately is very critical in agricultural remote sensing, especially in monitoring crop growth and yield prediction. The development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been significant in recent years and has been extensively applied in agricultural remote sensing (RS). The vegetation index (VI), which reflects spectral information, is a commonly used RS method for estimating LAI. Texture features can reflect the differences in the canopy structure of rice at different growth stages. In this research, a method was developed to improve the accuracy of rice LAI estimation during the whole growing season by combining texture information based on wavelet transform and spectral information derived from the VI. During the whole growth period, we obtained UAV images of two study areas using a 12-band Mini-MCA system and performed corresponding ground measurements. Several VI values were calculated, and the texture analysis was carried out. New indices were constructed by mathematically combining the wavelet texture and spectral information. Compared with the corresponding VIs, the new indices reduced the saturation effect and were less sensitive to the emergence of panicles. The determination coefficient (R-2) increased for most VIs used in this study throughout the whole growth period. The results indicated that the estimation accuracy of LAI by combining spectral information and texture information was higher than that of VIs. The method proposed in this study used the spectral and wavelet texture features extracted from UAV images to establish a model of the whole growth period of rice, which was easy to operate and had great potential for large-scale auxiliary rice breeding and field management research.
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