Estimating potassium in potato plants based on multispectral images acquired from unmanned aerial vehicles

Frontiers in Plant Science

Plant Science

YiGuang Fan¹  RiQiang Chen¹  GuiJun Yang¹  HaiKuan Feng²  ZhiChao Chen³  YanPeng Ma⁴  MingBo Bian⁴ 

[1] Information Technology Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China;Information Technology Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China;National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China;School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, China;School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, China;Information Technology Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China;

关键词: potato;    plant potassium content;    multispectral imagery;    vegetation index;    fraction vegetation coverage;    texture feature;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpls.2023.1265132

 received in 2023-07-22, accepted in 2023-08-29,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Plant potassium content (PKC) is a crucial indicator of crop potassium nutrient status and is vital in making informed fertilization decisions in the field. This study aims to enhance the accuracy of PKC estimation during key potato growth stages by using vegetation indices (VIs) and spatial structure features derived from UAV-based multispectral sensors. Specifically, the fraction of vegetation coverage (FVC), gray-level co-occurrence matrix texture, and multispectral VIs were extracted from multispectral images acquired at the potato tuber formation, tuber growth, and starch accumulation stages. Linear regression and stepwise multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to investigate how VIs, both individually and in combination with spatial structure features, affect potato PKC estimation. The findings lead to the following conclusions: (1) Estimating potato PKC using multispectral VIs is feasible but necessitates further enhancements in accuracy. (2) Augmenting VIs with either the FVC or texture features makes potato PKC estimation more accurate than when using single VIs. (3) Finally, integrating VIs with both the FVC and texture features improves the accuracy of potato PKC estimation, resulting in notable R2 values of 0.63, 0.84, and 0.80 for the three fertility periods, respectively, with corresponding root mean square errors of 0.44%, 0.29%, and 0.25%. Overall, these results highlight the potential of integrating canopy spectral information and spatial-structure information obtained from multispectral sensors mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles for monitoring crop growth and assessing potassium nutrient status. These findings thus have significant implications for agricultural management.

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