Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2023, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (9): 2109-2120.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20221456

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Numerical estimation of chlorophyll in pepper leaves based on optimized vegetation index combination

WANG Yu1(), WANG Hong1,*(), XIAO Jiujun2,3, LI Kexiang2,3, XING Dan4, ZHANG Yongliang1, CHEN Yang2,3, ZHANG Lanyue2,3   

  1. 1. Mining College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
    2. Institute of Mountain Resources of Guizhou, Guizhou Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550001, China
    3. Engineering Research Center for Land Green Consolidation of Guizhou, Guiyang 550001, China
    4. Pepper Research Institute, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang 550009, China
  • Received:2022-10-11 Online:2023-09-25 Published:2023-10-09

Abstract:

Leaf chlorophyll is closely related to vegetation growth, and it is an important parameter that directly affects vegetation growth and health status. SPAD value can reflect the chlorophyll content of crop leaves. The larger the SPAD value, the higher the chlorophyll content, and the smaller the SPAD value, the lower the chlorophyll content. The shape and physiological and ecological parameters of different varieties of pepper are significantly different, so it is of great significance to accurately and quickly estimate the SPAD value. The SPAD values of 4 different varieties of peppers, Qianjiao 8, Hongla 18, Layan 101, and Red Globe, were measured. The reciprocal, logarithm, reciprocal logarithm, first-order differential and second-order differential transformation of the original spectrum were performed. The vegetation index was optimized by replacing the original spectrum with the transformed spectrum, and the difference between the optimized vegetation index and the classical vegetation index was compared. Finally, the relationship between SPAD values and hyperspectral of different varieties of peppers was obtained, and the optimal inversion model of SPAD values was found. The results showed that there were differences in canopy spectral characteristics of different pepper varieties. SPAD values of modeling set, validation set and full sample of pepper leaves showed that the change trend of line pepper was greater than that of Chao tian pepper. The correlation coefficients of vegetation indices based on reciprocal logarithmic spectral optimization were higher than classical vegetation indices except CIred edge. The random forest model based on lg1/R-VI had good accuracy in both the modeling set and the validation set, which was suitable for the estimation of SPAD values of different varieties of pepper leaves. The coefficient of determination (R2) of full sample model test set was 0.83, mean absolute deviation (MAD) was 1.90, and R2of validation set was 0.45, MAD was 1.26.

Key words: pepper, SPAD, canopy hyperspectral, optimizing vegetation index, random forest model

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