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Machine Learning-Based Crop Drought Mapping System by UAV Remote Sensing RGB Imagery

Water stress has adverse effects on crop growth and yield, where its monitoring plays a vital role in precision crop management.
This paper aims at initially exploiting the potentials of UAV aerial RGB image in crop water stress assessment by developing a
simple but effective supervised learning system. Various techniques are seamlessly integrated into the system including vegetation
segmentation, feature engineering, Bayesian optimization and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. In particular, wheat pixels
are first segmented from soil background by using the classical vegetation index thresholding. Rather than performing pixel-wise
classification, pixel squares of appropriate dimension are defined as samples, from which various features for pure vegetation pixels
are extracted including spectral and colour index features. SVM with Bayesian optimization is adopted as the classifier. To validate
the developed system, a UAV survey is performed to collect high-resolution atop canopy RGB imageries by using DJI S1000 for
the experimental wheat fields of Gucheng town, Heibei Province, China. Two levels of soil moisture were designed after seedling
establishment for wheat plots by using intelligent irrigation and rain shelter, where field measurements were to obtain ground soil
water ratio for each wheat plot. Comparative experiments by three-fold cross-validation demonstrate that pixel-wise classification,
with a high computation load, can only achieve an accuracy of 82.8% with poor F1 score of 71.7%; however, the developed system
can achieve an accuracy of 89.9% with F1 score of 87.7% by using only spectral intensities, and the accuracy can be further
improved to 92.8% with F1 score of 91.5% by fusing both spectral intensities and colour index features. Future work is focused on
incorporating more spectral information and advanced feature extraction algorithms to further improve the performance.