Separability of coffee leaf rust infection levels with machine learning methods at Sentinel-2 MSI spectral resolutions

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 859-881

  Chemura, Abel ^a,b   Mutanga, Onisimo ^a   Dube, Timothy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Chinhoyi University of Technology   (Zimbabwe)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Disease discrimination; Hemileia vastatrix; Random forest; Red edge; Variable optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COFFEE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EDGE EFFECT; FUNGAL DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MACHINE LEARNING; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SENTINEL; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

FUNGI; HEMILEIA; HEMILEIA VASTATRIX;

EID: 85007494472     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: 15731618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-016-9495-0     Document Type: Article

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