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Paper Abstract
The aim of this research is the early detection of plant diseases based on the combination of vegetation indices. We have
seen that an individual index such as the most popular one, namely NDVI, does not discriminate adequately between
healthy and diseased plants, e.g. Cercospora beticola, Erysiphe betae, and Uromyces betae. However, by combining
vegetation indices, which are usually called features in classification, very reliable results can be achieved. We use
Support Vector Machines for classification. By this we receive a classification accuracy of almost 95% for Cercospora
beticola and Uromyces betae and still over 92% for Erysiphe betae. Depending on the different plant diseases we have
found that different vegetation indices are important, too. Consequently, the question how to find the best index for every
plant disease and the choice of the best subset arise. Both questions are not the same, because different indices contain
similar information which can already be seen from the formula of the calculation of the vegetation index. These
dependencies do not have to be linear. In order to identify optimal subsets of features for the different pathogens already
at an early stage of infestation, we have found that entropy and mutual information are adequate concepts. Accordingly
we use the minimum redundancy - maximum relevance (mRMR) criterion to evaluate the features. We have found that
we need different indices and feature subsets of different sizes for different diseases.
Paper Details
Date Published: 18 September 2009
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 7472, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XI, 747217 (18 September 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.830525
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7472:
Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XI
Christopher M. U. Neale; Antonino Maltese, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 7472, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XI, 747217 (18 September 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.830525
Show Author Affiliations
D. Dörschlag, Univ. of Bonn (Germany)
L. Plümer, Univ. of Bonn (Germany)
L. Plümer, Univ. of Bonn (Germany)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7472:
Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XI
Christopher M. U. Neale; Antonino Maltese, Editor(s)
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