Title
Data Mining and NIR Spectroscopy in Viticulture: Applications for Plant Phenotyping under Field Conditions.
Abstract
Plant phenotyping is a very important topic in agriculture. In this context, data mining strategies may be applied to agricultural data retrieved with new non-invasive devices, with the aim of yielding useful, reliable and objective information. This work presents some applications of machine learning algorithms along with in-field acquired NIR spectral data for plant phenotyping in viticulture, specifically for grapevine variety discrimination and assessment of plant water status. Support vector machine (SVM), rotation forests and M5 trees models were built using NIR spectra acquired in the field directly on the adaxial side of grapevine leaves, with a non-invasive portable spectrophotometer working in the spectral range between 1600 and 2400 nm. The nu-SVM algorithm was used for the training of a model for varietal classification. The classifiers' performance for the 10 varieties reached, for cross- and external validations, the 88.7% and 92.5% marks, respectively. For water stress assessment, the models developed using the absorbance spectra of six varieties yielded the same determination coefficient for both cross- and external validations (R-2 = 0.84; RMSEs of 0.164 and 0.165 MPa, respectively). Furthermore, a variety-specific model trained only with samples of Tempranillo from two different vintages yielded R-2 = 0.76 and RMSE of 0.16 MPa for cross-validation and R-2 = 0.79, RMSE of 0.17 MPa for external validation. These results show the power of the combined use of data mining and non-invasive NIR sensing for in-field grapevine phenotyping and their usefulness for the wine industry and precision viticulture implementations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/s16020236
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
stem water potential,SVM,variety classification,non-destructive,regression tree,rotation forest,plant water status
Plant phenotyping,Data mining,Decision tree,Precision viticulture,Near-infrared spectroscopy,Support vector machine,Water stress,Spectral data,Engineering,Viticulture
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
2.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.55
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salvador Gutiérrez170.99
Javier Tardaguila2516.60
Juan Fernández-Novales350.55
Maria-Paz Diago4152.63