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- Title
Counting of Pennisetum alopecuroides at heading stage in a grazed pasture using images from an unmanned aerial vehicle.
- Authors
Yuba, Norio; Kawamura, Kensuke; Yasuda, Taisuke; Lim, Jihyun; Yoshitoshi, Rena; Kurokawa, Yuzo; Maeda, Teruo
- Abstract
This study focused on the fact that Pennisetum alopecuroides ears are black that represents a black dots in image from sky and developed a simple algorithm to count the number of P. alopecuroides plants from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images. Ortho‐mosaicked red‐green‐blue (RGB) images from different flight altitudes (28, 56 and 82 m) were obtained in the heading growth stage. To remove small noisy pixels, various sized median filters (3 × 3–21 × 21) were tested. While the relationship between field and image counts was positive for most images obtained from 56 and 82 m altitudes, images in the 28‐m flight altitude (the highest spatial resolution) with small and moderate‐sized median filters (3 × 3–9 × 9) were overestimated. Moreover, higher resolution images from lower altitudes of UAV images decrease the operating efficiency (areas covered per 10 min). Overall, the best accuracy (80.3%) and lowest mean absolute error (MAE = 12.93) were obtained for the 56‐m flight altitude (ground sampling distance [GSD] = 1.82 cm) with a 7 × 7 filter size.
- Subjects
PENNISETUM; DRONE aircraft; HIGH resolution imaging; PASTURES
- Publication
Grassland Science, 2020, Vol 66, Issue 4, p285
- ISSN
1744-6961
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/grs.12277