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Acta Agron Sin ›› 2017, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (04): 549-557.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1006.2017.00549

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Application of an Improved Method in Retrieving Leaf Area Index Combined Spectral Index with PLSR in Hyperspectral Data Generated by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Snapshot Camera

GAO Lin1,2,YANG Gui-Jun1,*,LI Chang-Chun3,FENG Hai-Kuan1,XU Bo 1,WANG Lei1,3,DONG Jin-Hui1,3,FU Kui3   

  1. 1 Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture / National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture / Key Laboratory of Agri-informatics, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100097, China; 2 School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing in Jiangsu province 210023, China; 3 School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo in Henan province 454000, China
  • Received:2016-05-15 Revised:2017-01-21 Online:2017-04-12 Published:2017-02-10
  • Contact: Yang Guijun, E-mail: yanggj@nercita.org.cn E-mail:gaol081115@126.com
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    This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0300602), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61661136003, 41471285, 41271345), and the Innovation Capacity Building Project of Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (KJCX20170423).

Abstract:

The objective of this study was to demonstrate the value of an improved method of retrieved leaf area index (LAI) based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hyperspectral data combined spectral characteristics, as red edge parameters (REPs) and vegetation indices, with partial least squares regression (PLSR). We got UAV UHD185 hyperspectral images at booting, anthesis, and filling stages in winter wheat. And synchronously measured ASD hyperspectral data and winter wheat LAI. We compared UHD185 data with ASD data in terms of the correlation between reflectivity and vegetation indices to verify the UAV hyperspectral data accuracy. The band 3 to 96 (458-830 nm) of UHD185 hyperspectral data had better spectral quality and was suitable for detecting winter wheat LAI. We did correlation analysis between spectral characteristics, six kinds of vegetation indices and four kinds of red edge parameters, and LAI, and used two kinds of validation methods, independent validation and cross validation, to analyze the prediction accuracy of winter wheat LAI. Compared with traditional LAI fitting method, the improved LAI fitting method especially PLSR+REPs, greatly improved the prediction accuracy of winter wheat LAI. The above results confirmed that the improved LAI fitting method is able to better utilize UAV UHD185 hyperspectral data to predict LAI of winter wheat. Moreover, it is expected to provide a few new ideas for retrieving crop physical and chemical parameters based on UAV hyperspectral data.

Key words: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Hyperspectral remote sensing, Leaf area index (LAI), Partial least squares regression, Red edge parameters, Vegetation indices

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