Protecting Superfood Olive Crop from Pests and Pathogen Using Image Processing Techniques: A Review

Background: Olive (Oleo europaea L.) cultivars are widely cultivated all over the world. But it is often attacked by pests and pathogens. This deteriorates the quality of the crop leading to less yield of olive oil. Image processing techniques can be used to classify the different pathogens causing similar disease symptoms on olive leaves Objective: With the rapid increase in the availability of data in the field of nutrigenomics, the olive has established itself as a superfood and a potential source of therapeutics. The objective of this review is to emphasize the early detection and classification of the disease using image processing techniques Method: A systematic literature search using keywords, Olive oil, pest and pathogen of olives, metabolic profiling were done on PubMed, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar. Results: Disease infection often led to huge losses and poor quality of olive oil yield. Early understanding of disease infestations can safeguard the olive plant and the olive oil yield Results: Disease infection often led to huge losses and poor quality of olive oil yield. Early understanding of disease infestations can safeguard the olive plant and the olive oil yield