3D Convolutional Neural Network with Dimension Reduction and Metric Learning for Crop Yield Prediction Based on Remote Sensing Data

Autor: Ning Wang, Zhong Ma, Pengcheng Huo, Xi Liu, Zhao He, Kedi Lu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 13, Iss 24, p 13305 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app132413305
Popis: Crop yield prediction is essential for tasks like determining the optimal profile of crops to be planted, allocating government resources, effectively planning and preparing for aid distribution, making decisions about imports, and so on. Crop yield prediction using remote sensing data during the growing season is helpful to farm planning and management, which has received increasing attention. Information mining from multichannel geo-spatiotemporal data brings many benefits to crop yield prediction. However, most of the existing methods have not fully utilized the dimension reduction technology and the spatiotemporal feature of the data. In this paper, a new approach is proposed to predict the yield from multispatial images by using the dimension reduction method and a 3D convolutional neural network. In addition, regions with similar crop yields should have similar features learned by the network. Thus, metric learning and multitask learning are used to learn more discriminative features. We evaluated the proposed method on county-level soybean yield prediction in the United States, and the experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method. The proposed method provides new ideas for crop yield estimation and effectively improves the accuracy of crop yield estimation.
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