Title
Fusarium Wilt of Radish Detection Using RGB and Near Infrared Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Abstract
The radish is a delicious, healthy vegetable and an important ingredient to many side dishes and main recipes. However, climate change, pollinator decline, and especially Fusarium wilt cause a significant reduction in the cultivation area and the quality of the radish yield. Previous studies on plant disease identification have relied heavily on extracting features manually from images, which is time-consuming and inefficient. In addition to Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images, the development of near-infrared (NIR) sensors has enabled a more effective way to monitor the diseases and evaluate plant health based on multispectral imagery. Thus, this study compares two distinct approaches in detecting radish wilt using RGB images and NIR images taken by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The main research contributions include (1) a high-resolution RGB and NIR radish field dataset captured by drone from low to high altitudes, which can serve several research purposes; (2) implementation of a superpixel segmentation method to segment captured radish field images into separated segments; (3) a customized deep learning-based radish identification framework for the extracted segmented images, which achieved remarkable performance in terms of accuracy and robustness with the highest accuracy of 96%; (4) the proposal for a disease severity analysis that can detect different stages of the wilt disease; (5) showing that the approach based on NIR images is more straightforward and effective in detecting wilt disease than the learning approach based on the RGB dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/rs12172863
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
UAV,NIR,normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI),fusarium wilt,deep learning,disease detection,RGB,drone,CNN
Journal
12
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
17
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
L. Minh Dang112.06
Hanxiang Wang241.75
Yanfen Li312.40
Kyungbok Min440.70
Jin Tae Kwak510515.60
O. New Lee600.34
Hanyong Park700.34
Hyeonjoon Moon81886267.81