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Application of UAV Multispectral Imaging to Monitor Soybean Growth with Yield Prediction through Machine Learning

Sadia Alam Shammi    
Yanbo Huang    
Gary Feng    
Haile Tewolde    
Xin Zhang    
Johnie Jenkins and Mark Shankle    

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The application of remote sensing, which is non-destructive and cost-efficient, has been widely used in crop monitoring and management. This study used a built-in multispectral imager on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to capture multispectral images in five different spectral bands (blue, green, red, red edge, and near-infrared), instead of satellite-captured data, to monitor soybean growth in a field. The field experiment was conducted in a soybean field at the Mississippi State University Experiment Station near Pontotoc, MS, USA. The experiment consisted of five cover crops (Cereal Rye, Vetch, Wheat, Mustard plus Cereal Rye, and native vegetation) planted in the winter and three fertilizer treatments (Fertilizer, Poultry Liter, and None) applied before planting the soybean. During the soybean growing season in 2022, eight UAV imaging flyovers were conducted, spread across the growth season. UAV image-derived vegetation indices (VIs) coupled with machine learning (ML) models were computed for characterizing soybean growth at different stages across the season. The aim of this study focuses on monitoring soybean growth to predict yield, using 14 VIs including CC (Canopy Cover), NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), GNDVI (Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), EVI2 (Enhanced Vegetation Index 2), and others. Different machine learning algorithms including Linear Regression (LR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Random Forest (RF) are used for this purpose. The stage of the initial pod development was shown as having the best predictability for earliest soybean yield prediction. CC, NDVI, and NAVI (Normalized area vegetation index) were shown as the best VIs for yield prediction. The RMSE was found to be about 134.5 to 511.11 kg ha-1 in the different yield models, whereas it was 605.26 to 685.96 kg ha-1 in the cross-validated models. Due to the limited number of training and testing samples in the K-fold cross-validation, the models? results changed to some extent. Nevertheless, the results of this study will be useful for the application of UAV remote sensing to provide information for soybean production and management. This study demonstrates that VIs coupled with ML models can be used in multistage soybean yield prediction at a farm scale, even with a limited number of training samples.

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