Title
UAV-Based Biomass Estimation for Rice-Combining Spectral, TIN-Based Structural and Meteorological Features.
Abstract
Accurate estimation of above ground biomass (AGB) is very important for crop growth monitoring. The objective of this study was to estimate rice biomass by utilizing structural and meteorological features with widely used spectral features. Structural features were derived from the triangulated irregular network (TIN), which was directly built from structure from motion (SfM) point clouds. Growing degree days (GDD) was used as the meteorological feature. Three models were used to estimate rice AGB, including the simple linear regression (SLR) model, simple exponential regression (SER) model, and machine learning model (random forest). Compared to models that do not use structural and meteorological features (NDRE, R-2 = 0.64, RMSE = 286.79 g/m(2), MAE = 236.49 g/m(2)), models that include such features obtained better estimation accuracy (NDRE*Hcv/GDD, R-2 = 0.86, RMSE = 178.37 g/m(2), MAE = 127.34 g/m(2)). This study suggests that the estimation accuracy of rice biomass can benefit from the utilization of structural and meteorological features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/rs11070890
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV),above ground biomass (AGB),triangulated irregular network (TIN),growing degree days (GDD)
Biomass,Tin,Remote sensing,Geology
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
11
7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qi Jiang163.84
Shenghui Fang263.33
Yi Peng394.16
Yan Gong402.03
Renshan Zhu500.68
Xianting Wu600.34
Yi Ma7196.04
Bo Duan801.35
Jian Liu911557.13