Title
Two-dimensional Deep Regression for Early Yield Prediction of Winter Wheat
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Sheppard J.W.
Abstract
Crop yield prediction is one of the tasks of Precision Agriculture that can be automated based on multi-source periodic observations of the fields. We tackle the yield prediction problem using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained on data that combines radar satellite imagery and on-ground information. We present a CNN architecture called Hyper3DNetReg that takes in a multi-channel input image and outputs a two-dimensional raster, where each pixel represents the predicted yield value of the corresponding input pixel. We utilize radar data acquired from the Sentinel-1 satellites, while the on-ground data correspond to a set of six raster features: nitrogen rate applied, precipitation, slope, elevation, topographic position index (TPI), and aspect. We use data collected during the early stage of the winter wheat growing season (March) to predict yield values during the harvest season (August). We present experiments over four fields of winter wheat and show that our proposed methodology yields better results than five compared methods, including multiple linear regression, an ensemble of feedforward networks using AdaBoost, a stacked autoencoder, and two other CNN architectures.
Volume
11914
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Agricultura
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85123004510
ISBN
9781510646919
Source
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN of the container
0277786X
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