Title
Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Rice Density Prescription Map at Ripening Stage Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Remotely Sensed Images
Abstract
In this paper, UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle, DJI Phantom4RTK) and YOLOv4 (You Only Look Once) target detection deep neural network methods were employed to collected mature rice images and detect rice ears to produce a rice density prescription map. The YOLOv4 model was used for rice ear quick detection of rice images captured by a UAV. The Kriging interpolation algorithm was used in ArcGIS to make rice density prescription maps. Mature rice images collected by a UAV were marked manually and used to build the training and testing datasets. The resolution of the images was 300 x 300 pixels. The batch size was 2, and the initial learning rate was 0.01, and the mean average precision (mAP) of the best trained model was 98.84%. Exceptionally, the network ability to detect rice in different health states was also studied with a mAP of 95.42% in the no infection rice images set, 98.84% in the mild infection rice images set, 94.35% in the moderate infection rice images set, and 93.36% in the severe infection rice images set. According to the severity of rice sheath blight, which can cause rice leaves to wither and turn yellow, the blighted grain percentage increased and the thousand-grain weight decreased, the rice images were divided into these four infection levels. The ability of the network model (R-2 = 0.844) was compared with traditional image processing segmentation methods (R-2 = 0.396) based on color and morphology features and machine learning image segmentation method (Support Vector Machine, SVM R-2 = 0.0817, and K-means R-2 = 0.1949) for rice ear counting. The results highlight that the CNN has excellent robustness, and can generate a wide range of rice density prescription maps.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/rs14010046
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
unmanned aerial vehicle, rice ear, density, deep convolutional neural network, prescription map
Journal
14
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lele Wei100.34
Yusen Luo200.34
Lizhang Xu300.34
Qian Zhang400.34
Qibing Cai500.34
Mingjun Shen600.34