Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2024, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 651-661.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20230202

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Detection of relative chlorophyll content of field cantaloupe canopy at different growth stages based on digital images

LIU Yancena(), GUO Junxiana,*(), GUO Yanga, SHI Yonga, HUANG Huab, LI Longjiea, ZHANG Zhenzhena   

  1. a. Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Institute; b. School of Mathematics and Science, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China
  • Received:2023-02-20 Online:2024-03-25 Published:2024-04-09

Abstract:

To explore the feasibility of quickly and non-destructively obtaining the relative chlorophyll content of the complete canopy of field cantaloupe, a self-made image acquisition vehicle equipped with a plane array camera was used in the present study to collect a total of 378 complete canopy images of field cantaloupe during the vine stretching stage, the flowering stage, and the fruit expansion stage, under different water and fertilizer treatments. After image processing, 32 color features and 6 texture features were extracted, and the correlation between image features and relative chlorophyll content of canopy was analyzed. After image features being preprocessed, principal components were selected as model inputs to establish multiple linear regression (MLR), support vector regression (SVR), and random forest (RF) prediction models for the relative chlorophyll content of field cantaloupe canopy at different growth stages. By comparison, it was found that the SVR models had the best performance, as the determination coefficients of the regression within the predicted values and the measured values were 0.73, 0.73 and 0.83, respectively, and the root mean squre errors were 0.90, 0.91 and 0.76 for the vine stretching stage, the flowering stage and the fruit expansion stage, respectively. It was proved that digital image technology may enable rapid and non-destructive detection of relative chlorophyll content of the field cantaloupe canopy at different growth stages, which could provide technical references for the field management of cantaloupe production.

Key words: canopy image of cantaloupe, chlorophyll, image features, support vector regression, critical growth period

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