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The estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by UAV RGB imagery
BACKGROUND: Crop emergence and canopy cover are important physiological traits for potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivar evaluation and nutrients management. They play important roles in variety screening, field management and yield prediction. Traditional manual assessment of these traits is not o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30792752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0399-7 |
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author | Li, Bo Xu, Xiangming Han, Jiwan Zhang, Li Bian, Chunsong Jin, Liping Liu, Jiangang |
author_facet | Li, Bo Xu, Xiangming Han, Jiwan Zhang, Li Bian, Chunsong Jin, Liping Liu, Jiangang |
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description | BACKGROUND: Crop emergence and canopy cover are important physiological traits for potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivar evaluation and nutrients management. They play important roles in variety screening, field management and yield prediction. Traditional manual assessment of these traits is not only laborious but often subjective. RESULTS: In this study, semi-automated image analysis software was developed to estimate crop emergence from high-resolution RGB ortho-images captured from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Potato plant objects were extracted from bare soil using Excess Green Index and Otsu thresholding methods. Six morphological features were calculated from the images to be variables of a Random Forest classifier for estimating the number of potato plants at emergence stage. The outputs were then used to estimate crop emergence in three field experiments that were designed to investigate the effects of cultivars, levels of potassium (K) fertiliser input, and new compound fertilisers on potato growth. The results indicated that RGB UAV image analysis can accurately estimate potato crop emergence rate in comparison to manual assessment, with correlation coefficient ([Formula: see text] ) of 0.96 and provide an efficient tool to evaluate emergence uniformity. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed UAV image analysis method is a promising tool for use as a high throughput phenotyping method for assessing potato crop development at emergence stage. It can also facilitate future studies on optimizing fertiliser management and improving emergence consistency. |
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spelling | pubmed-63714612019-02-21 The estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by UAV RGB imagery Li, Bo Xu, Xiangming Han, Jiwan Zhang, Li Bian, Chunsong Jin, Liping Liu, Jiangang Plant Methods Research BACKGROUND: Crop emergence and canopy cover are important physiological traits for potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivar evaluation and nutrients management. They play important roles in variety screening, field management and yield prediction. Traditional manual assessment of these traits is not only laborious but often subjective. RESULTS: In this study, semi-automated image analysis software was developed to estimate crop emergence from high-resolution RGB ortho-images captured from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Potato plant objects were extracted from bare soil using Excess Green Index and Otsu thresholding methods. Six morphological features were calculated from the images to be variables of a Random Forest classifier for estimating the number of potato plants at emergence stage. The outputs were then used to estimate crop emergence in three field experiments that were designed to investigate the effects of cultivars, levels of potassium (K) fertiliser input, and new compound fertilisers on potato growth. The results indicated that RGB UAV image analysis can accurately estimate potato crop emergence rate in comparison to manual assessment, with correlation coefficient ([Formula: see text] ) of 0.96 and provide an efficient tool to evaluate emergence uniformity. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed UAV image analysis method is a promising tool for use as a high throughput phenotyping method for assessing potato crop development at emergence stage. It can also facilitate future studies on optimizing fertiliser management and improving emergence consistency. BioMed Central 2019-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6371461/ /pubmed/30792752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0399-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Li, Bo Xu, Xiangming Han, Jiwan Zhang, Li Bian, Chunsong Jin, Liping Liu, Jiangang The estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by UAV RGB imagery |
title | The estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by UAV RGB imagery |
title_full | The estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by UAV RGB imagery |
title_fullStr | The estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by UAV RGB imagery |
title_full_unstemmed | The estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by UAV RGB imagery |
title_short | The estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by UAV RGB imagery |
title_sort | estimation of crop emergence in potatoes by uav rgb imagery |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30792752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0399-7 |
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