Title
Identification of Wheat Yellow Rust Using Optimal Three-Band Spectral Indices in Different Growth Stages.
Abstract
Yellow rust, a widely known destructive wheat disease, affects wheat quality and causes large economic losses in wheat production. Hyperspectral remote sensing has shown potential for the detection of plant disease. This study aimed to analyze the spectral reflectance of the wheat canopy in the range of 350-1000 nm and to develop optimal spectral indices to detect yellow rust disease in wheat at different growth stages. The sensitive wavebands of healthy and infected wheat were located in the range 460-720 nm in the early-mid growth stage (from booting to anthesis), and in the ranges 568-709 nm and 725-1000 nm in the mid-late growth stage (from filling to milky ripeness), respectively. All possible three-band combinations over these sensitive wavebands were calculated as the forms of PRI (Photochemical Reflectance Index) and ARI (Anthocyanin Reflectance Index) at different growth stages and assessed to determine whether they could be used for estimating the severity of yellow rust disease. The optimal spectral index for estimating wheat infected by yellow rust disease was PRI (570, 525, 705) during the early-mid growth stage with R-2 of 0.669, and ARI (860, 790, 750) during the mid-late growth stage with R-2 of 0.888. Comparison of the proposed spectral indices with previously reported vegetation indices were able to satisfactorily discriminate wheat yellow rust. The classification accuracy for PRI (570, 525, 705) was 80.6% and the kappa coefficient was 0.61 in early-mid growth stage, and the classification accuracy for ARI (860, 790, 750) was 91.9% and the kappa coefficient was 0.75 in mid-late growth stage. The classification accuracy of the two indices reached 84.1% and 93.2% in the early-mid and mid-late growth stages in the validated dataset, respectively. We conclude that the three-band spectral indices PRI (570, 525, 705) and ARI (860, 790, 750) are optimal for monitoring yellow rust infection in these two growth stages, respectively. Our method is expected to provide a technical basis for wheat disease detection and prevention in the early-mid growth stage, and the estimation of yield losses in the mid-late growth stage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19010035
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
yellow rust disease,different growth stages,three-band spectral index,wheat infection,hyperspectral remote sensing
Vegetation,Anthesis,Hyperspectral imaging,Electronic engineering,Rust,Engineering,Reflectivity,Photochemical Reflectance Index,Canopy
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
1.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.43
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiong Zheng130.90
Wenjiang Huang217951.84
Ximin Cui330.90
Yingying Dong41811.41
Yue Shi5153.77
Huiqin Ma621.12
Linyi Liu754.99