The rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is an important tree species for the production of natural latex, which is an essential raw material for varieties of industrial and non-industrial products. Rapid and accurate identification of the number of rubber trees not only plays an important role in predicting biomass and yield but also is beneficial to estimating carbon sinks and promoting the sustainable development of rubber plantations. However, the existing recognition methods based on canopy characteristic segmentation are not suitable for detecting individual rubber trees due to their high canopy coverage and similar crown structure. Fortunately, rubber trees have a defoliation period of about 40 days, which makes their trunks clearly visible in high-resolution RGB images. Therefore, this study employed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with an RGB camera to acquire high-resolution images of rubber plantations from three observation angles (−90°, −60°, 45°) and two flight directions (SN: perpendicular to the rubber planting row, and WE: parallel to rubber planting rows) during the deciduous period. Four convolutional neural networks (multi-scale attention network, MAnet; Unet++; Unet; pyramid scene parsing network, PSPnet) were utilized to explore observation angles and directions beneficial for rubber tree trunk identification and counting. The results indicate that Unet++ achieved the best recognition accuracy (precision = 0.979, recall = 0.919, F-measure = 94.7%) with an observation angle of −60° and flight mode of SN among the four deep learning algorithms. This research provides a new idea for tree trunk identification by multi-angle observation of forests in specific phenological periods.


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    Titel :

    Rubber Tree Recognition Based on UAV RGB Multi-Angle Imagery and Deep Learning


    Beteiligte:
    Yuying Liang (Autor:in) / Yongke Sun (Autor:in) / Weili Kou (Autor:in) / Weiheng Xu (Autor:in) / Juan Wang (Autor:in) / Qiuhua Wang (Autor:in) / Huan Wang (Autor:in) / Ning Lu (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt




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