Estimation of Potato Above-Ground Biomass Using UAV-Based Hyperspectral images and Machine-Learning Regression

Author:

Liu Yang,Feng HaikuanORCID,Yue JiboORCID,Fan Yiguang,Jin XiuliangORCID,Zhao Yu,Song XiaoyuORCID,Long Huiling,Yang Guijun

Abstract

Above-ground biomass (AGB) is an important indicator for monitoring crop growth and plays a vital role in guiding agricultural management, so it must be determined rapidly and nondestructively. The present study investigated the extraction from UAV hyperspectral images of multiple variables, including canopy original spectra (COS), first-derivative spectra (FDS), vegetation indices (VIs), and crop height (CH) to estimate the potato AGB via the machine-learning methods of support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and Gaussian process regression (GPR). High-density point clouds were combined with three-dimensional spatial information from ground control points by using structures from motion technology to generate a digital surface model (DSM) of the test field, following which CH was extracted based on the DSM. Feature bands in sensitive spectral regions of COS and FDS were automatically identified by using a Gaussian process regression-band analysis tool that analyzed the correlation of the COS and FDS with the AGB in each growth period. In addition, the 16 Vis were separately analyzed for correlation with the AGB of each growth period to identify highly correlated Vis and excluded highly autocorrelated variables. The three machine-learning methods were used to estimate the potato AGB at each growth period and their results were compared separately based on the COS, FDS, VIs, and combinations thereof with CH. The results showed that (i) the correlations of COS, FDS, and VIs with AGB all gradually improved when going from the tuber-formation stage to the tuber-growth stage and thereafter deteriorated. The VIs were most strongly correlated with the AGB, followed by FDS, and then by COS. (ii) The CH extracted from the DSM was consistent with the measured CH. (iii) For each growth stage, the accuracy of the AGB estimates produced by a given machine-learning method depended on the combination of model variables used (VIs, FDS, COS, and CH). (iv) For any given set of model variables, GPR produced the best AGB estimates in each growth period, followed by RF, and finally by SVM. (v) The most accurate AGB estimate was achieved in the tuber-growth stage and was produced by combining spectral information and CH and applying the GPR method. The results of this study thus reveal that UAV hyperspectral images can be used to extract CH and crop-canopy spectral information, which can be used with GPR to accurately estimate potato AGB and thereby accurately monitor crop growth.

Funder

Key scientific and technological projects of Heilongjiang province

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Platform Construction Funded Program of Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences

Key Field Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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