scholarly journals Design and Testing of an Active Light Source Apparatus for Crop Growth Monitoring and Diagnosis

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 206474-206490
Author(s):  
Lili Yao ◽  
Rusong Wu ◽  
Shun Wu ◽  
Xiaoping Jiang ◽  
Yan Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Light Source ◽  
Crop Growth ◽  
Growth Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring And Diagnosis ◽  
Design And Testing

scholarly journals Monitoring Wheat Growth Using a Portable Three-Band Instrument for Crop Growth Monitoring and Diagnosis

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2894
Author(s):  
Huaimin Li ◽  
Weipan Lin ◽  
Fangrong Pang ◽  
Xiaoping Jiang ◽  
Weixing Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Vegetation Indices ◽  
Growth Index ◽  
Leaf Nitrogen ◽  
Crop Growth ◽  
Growth Monitoring ◽  
Leaf Nitrogen Content ◽  
Growth Indices ◽  
Wheat Growth ◽  
Monitoring And Diagnosis

An instrument developed to monitor and diagnose crop growth can quickly and non-destructively obtain crop growth information, which is helpful for crop field production and management. Focusing on the problems with existing two-band instruments used for crop growth monitoring and diagnosis, such as insufficient information available on crop growth and low accuracy of some growth indices retrieval, our research team developed a portable three-band instrument for crop-growth monitoring and diagnosis (CGMD) that obtains a larger amount of information. Based on CGMD, this paper carried out studies on monitoring wheat growth indices. According to the acquired three-band reflectance spectra, the combined indices were constructed by combining different bands, two-band vegetation indices (NDVI, RVI, and DVI), and three-band vegetation indices (TVI-1 and TVI-2). The fitting results of the vegetation indices obtained by CGMD and the commercial instrument FieldSpec HandHeld2 was high and the new instrument could be used for monitoring the canopy vegetation indices. By fitting each vegetation index to the growth index, the results showed that the optimal vegetation indices corresponding to leaf area index (LAI), leaf dry weight (LDW), leaf nitrogen content (LNC), and leaf nitrogen accumulation (LNA) were TVI-2, TVI-1, NDVI (R730, R815), and NDVI (R730, R815), respectively. R2 values corresponding to LAI, LDW, LNC and LNA were 0.64, 0.84, 0.60, and 0.82, respectively, and their relative root mean square error (RRMSE) values were 0.29, 0.26, 0.17, and 0.30, respectively. The addition of the red spectral band to CGMD effectively improved the monitoring results of wheat LAI and LDW. Focusing the problem of vegetation index saturation, this paper proposed a method to construct the wheat-growth-index spectral monitoring models that were defined according to the growth periods. It improved the prediction accuracy of LAI, LDW, and LNA, with R2 values of 0.79, 0.85, and 0.85, respectively, and the RRMSE values of these growth indices were 0.22, 0.23, and 0.28, respectively. The method proposed here could be used for the guidance of wheat field cultivation.

scholarly journals Development of an Apparatus for Crop-Growth Monitoring and Diagnosis

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 3129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Ni ◽  
Jingchao Zhang ◽  
Rusong Wu ◽  
Fangrong Pang ◽  
Yan Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiments ◽  
Leaf Nitrogen ◽  
Crop Growth ◽  
Growth Monitoring ◽  
Nitrogen Accumulation ◽  
Leaf Nitrogen Content ◽  
Area Index ◽  
Linear Fitting ◽  
Monitoring And Diagnosis ◽  
Mean Square Errors

To non-destructively acquire leaf nitrogen content (LNC), leaf nitrogen accumulation (LNA), leaf area index (LAI), and leaf dry weight (LDW) data at high speed and low cost, a portable apparatus for crop-growth monitoring and diagnosis (CGMD) was developed according to the spectral monitoring mechanisms of crop growth. According to the canopy characteristics of crops and actual requirements of field operation environments, splitting light beams by using an optical filter and proper structural parameters were determined for the sensors. Meanwhile, an integral-type weak optoelectronic signal processing circuit was designed, which changed the gain of the system and guaranteed the high resolution of the apparatus by automatically adjusting the integration period based on the irradiance received from ambient light. In addition, a coupling processor system for a sensor information and growth model based on the microcontroller chip was developed. Field experiments showed that normalised vegetation index (NDVI) measured separately through the CGMD apparatus and the ASD spectrometer showed a good linear correlation. For measurements of canopy reflectance spectra of rice and wheat, their linear determination coefficients (R2) were 0.95 and 0.92, respectively while the root mean square errors (RMSEs) were 0.02 and 0.03, respectively. NDVI value measured by using the CGMD apparatus and growth indices of rice and wheat exhibited a linear relationship. For the monitoring models for LNC, LNA, LAI, and LDW of rice based on linear fitting of NDVI, R2 were 0.64, 0.67, 0.63 and 0.70, and RMSEs were 0.31, 2.29, 1.15 and 0.05, respectively. In addition, R2 of the models for monitoring LNC, LNA, LAI, and LDW of wheat on the basis of linear fitting of NDVI were 0.82, 0.71, 0.72 and 0.70, and RMSEs were 0.26, 2.30, 1.43, and 0.05, respectively.

scholarly journals Development of mobile RoboVision with stereo camera for automatic crop growth monitoring in plant factory

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anggit Wijanarko ◽  
Andri Prima Nugroho ◽  
Lilik Sutiarso ◽  
Takashi Okayasu
Keyword(s):  
Crop Growth ◽  
Growth Monitoring ◽  
Stereo Camera ◽  
Plant Factory

scholarly journals Rapid Mosaicking of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images for Crop Growth Monitoring Using the SIFT Algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianqing Zhao ◽  
Xiaohu Zhang ◽  
Chenxi Gao ◽  
Xiaolei Qiu ◽  
Yongchao Tian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Crop Growth ◽  
Contrast Threshold ◽  
Growth Monitoring ◽  
Scale Invariant ◽  
Sift Algorithm ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Uav Images

To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of mosaicking unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images, we propose in this paper a rapid mosaicking method based on scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) for mosaicking UAV images used for crop growth monitoring. The proposed method dynamically sets the appropriate contrast threshold in the difference of Gaussian (DOG) scale-space according to the contrast characteristics of UAV images used for crop growth monitoring. Therefore, this method adjusts and optimizes the number of matched feature point pairs in UAV images and increases the mosaicking efficiency. Meanwhile, based on the relative location relationship of UAV images used for crop growth monitoring, the random sample consensus (RANSAC) algorithm is integrated to eliminate the influence of mismatched point pairs in UAV images on mosaicking and to keep the accuracy and quality of mosaicking. Mosaicking experiments were conducted by setting three types of UAV images in crop growth monitoring: visible, near-infrared, and thermal infrared. The results indicate that compared to the standard SIFT algorithm and frequently used commercial mosaicking software, the method proposed here significantly improves the applicability, efficiency, and accuracy of mosaicking UAV images in crop growth monitoring. In comparison with image mosaicking based on the standard SIFT algorithm, the time efficiency of the proposed method is higher by 30%, and its structural similarity index of mosaicking accuracy is about 0.9. Meanwhile, the approach successfully mosaics low-resolution UAV images used for crop growth monitoring and improves the applicability of the SIFT algorithm, providing a technical reference for UAV application used for crop growth and phenotypic monitoring.

scholarly journals Bibliometric Analysis of Remote Sensing Research Trend in Crop Growth Monitoring: A Case Study in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijuan Wang ◽  
Guimin Zhang ◽  
Ziyi Wang ◽  
Jiangui Liu ◽  
Jiali Shang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Crop Growth ◽  
Future Trend ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Research Trend ◽  
Growth Monitoring ◽  
Knowledge Mapping ◽  
Area Index ◽  
Quantitative Visualization

Remote sensing of crop growth monitoring is an important technique to guide agricultural production. To gain a comprehensive understanding of historical progression and current status, and future trend of remote sensing researches and applications in the field of crop growth monitoring in China, a study was carried out based on the publications from the past 20 years by Chinese scholars. Using the knowledge mapping software CiteSpace, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of research development, current hotspots, and future directions of crop growth monitoring using remote sensing technology in China was conducted. Furthermore, the relationship between high-frequency keywords and the emerging hot topics were visually analyzed. The results revealed that Chinese researchers paid more attention on keywords such as “vegetation index”, “crop growth”, “winter wheat”, “leaf area index (LAI)”, and “model” in the field of crop growth monitoring, and “LAI” and “unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)”, appeared increasingly in frontier research of this discipline. Overall, bibliometric results from this CiteSpace-aided study provide a quantitative visualization to enrich our understanding on the historical development, current status, and future trend of crop growth monitoring in China.

scholarly journals Preface: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing for Crop Growth Monitoring

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Cheng ◽  
Zhengwei Yang ◽  
Yoshio Inoue ◽  
Yan Zhu ◽  
Weixing Cao
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Crop Growth ◽  
Growth Monitoring ◽  
Recent Advances
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