Title
Digital image sensor-based assessment of the status of oat (Avena sativa L.) crops after frost damage.
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to classify the land covered with oat crops, and the quantification of frost damage on oats, while plants are still in the flowering stage. The images are taken by a digital colour camera CCD-based sensor. Unsupervised classification methods are applied because the plants present different spectral signatures, depending on two main factors: illumination and the affected state. The colour space used in this application is CIELab, based on the decomposition of the colour in three channels, because it is the closest to human colour perception. The histogram of each channel is successively split into regions by thresholding. The best threshold to be applied is automatically obtained as a combination of three thresholding strategies: (a) Otsu's method, (b) Isodata algorithm, and (c) Fuzzy thresholding. The fusion of these automatic thresholding techniques and the design of the classification strategy are some of the main findings of the paper, which allows an estimation of the damages and a prediction of the oat production.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.3390/s110606015
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital image sensor,agricultural images,unsupervised classification,automatic thresholding,CIELab colour space,fuzzy error matrix,oat frost damage
Histogram,Computer vision,Frost,Fuzzy logic,Digital image,Avena,Multispectral pattern recognition,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Thresholding,Spectral signature
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
6
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.74
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonia Macedo-Cruz171.08
Gonzalo Pajares269957.18
Matilde Santos314324.39
Isidro Villegas-Romero470.74