Prediction of insect-herbivory-damage and insect-type attack in maize plants using hyperspectral data

Autor: Danielle Elis Garcia Furuya, Lingfei Ma, Mayara Maezano Faita Pinheiro, Felipe David Georges Gomes, Wesley Nunes Gonçalvez, José Marcato Junior, Diego de Castro Rodrigues, Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes, Mirian Fernandes Furtado Michereff, Miguel Borges, Raúl Alberto Alaumann, Ednaldo José Ferreira, Lucas Prado Osco, Ana Paula Marques Ramos, Jonathan Li, Lúcio André de Castro Jorge
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, Vol 105, Iss , Pp 102608- (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1569-8432
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2021.102608
Popis: Accurately detecting the insect damage caused in plants might reduce losses in crop yields. Hyperspectral data is a well-accepted data source to attend this issue. However, due to their high dimensional, both robust and intelligent methods are required to extract information from these datasets. Therefore, we explore the processing of hyperspectral data with artificial intelligence methods joined with clustering techniques to detect insect herbivory damage in maize plants. We measured the leaf spectral response from three different groups of maize plants: control (undamaged plants); damaged by Spodoptera frugiperda herbivory, and damaged by Dichelops meiacanthus. Data were collected with a FieldSpec 3.0 Spectroradiometer from 350 to 2500 nm for eight consecutive days. We adjusted eight machine learning methods. We also determined the most contributive wavelengths to differentiate undamaged from damaged plants by insect herbivore attack using clustering strategy. For that, we applied the clusterization method based on a self-organizing map (SOM). The Random Forest (RF) model is the overall best learner, and up to the 5th day of analysis represents the most adequate day to segregate maize undamaged from damaged maize. RF was able to separate the three groups of treatments with an F1-measure of up to 96.7% (Recall of 96.7% and Precision of 96.7%). Additionally, we found out that the most representative spectral regions are located in the near-infrared range. Our approach consists of an original contribution to early differentiate the undamaged plant from the damaged one due to insect-attack, highlighting the most contributive wavelengths to map this occurrence.
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