Developing Two Spectral Disease Indices for Detection of Wheat Leaf Rust (Pucciniatriticina)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Experimental Setup
2.1.1. Cultivation Condition and Pathogen Inoculation
2.1.2. Data Collection
- Camera model: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 85 IS;
- F-109 number: f/3.2;
- Shutter speed: 1/60.
2.2. Extraction of Disease Reflectance Spectra
2.3. Selection of Suitable Wavelength for Disease Severity Index
2.4. Comparison of the Results with Other SVIs
3. Results and Discussions
3.1. Disease Development in Leaves Inoculated with Rust
3.2. Evaluation of the Reflectance Spectra of Disease Symptoms
- (a)
- Selection of 60 random infected leaf spectra consisting of various disease symptoms
- (b)
- Using the estimated spectra of disease symptoms (Figure 3) and calculating the fraction of each disease symptom in each leaf by deploying Equation (1). These values are called estimated values.
- (c)
- Extracting the real fraction of disease symptoms for the selected spectra using the digital images. These values are called observed values.
- (d)
- Calculating the correlation coefficient between the estimated and observed values.
3.3. Estimating the Disease Severity
3.4. Comparison Suggested Indices with Other SVIs
4. Conclusions
Conflicts of Interest
- Author ContributionsAshourloo D. and Mobasheri M.R. developed the concept and research plan. Mobasheri was primary supervisor and leaded the campaign and field working. Huete A. co-supervisor of this work. Ashourloo, Mobasheri and Huete provided expert knowledge about methods, interpretations, participated in the discussions, editing and revisions of the paper. All authors discussed the results and implications and commented on the manuscript at all stages.
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Variable | Definition | Description |
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NBNDVI | Narrow-band normalised difference vegetation index | (R850 − R680)/(R850 + R680) [33] |
NRI | Nitrogen reflectance index | (R570 − R670)/(R570 + R670) [34] |
PRI | Photochemical reflectance index | (R570 − R531)/(R570 + R531) [35] |
TCARI | The transformed chlorophyll absorption and reflectance Index | 3 × [(R700 − R670) − 0.2 × (R700 − R550) × (R700/R670)] [36] |
SIPI | Structural independent pigment index | (R800 − R445)/(R800 − R680) [37] |
PhRI | Physiological reflectance index | (R550 − R531)/(R550 + R531) [38] |
NPCI | Normalized pigment chlorophyll ratio index | (R680 − R430)/(R680 + R430) [39] |
ARI | Anthocyanin reflectance index | ARI = (R550) −1 − (R700) −1[40] |
CARI | Chlorophyll absorption ratio index | (|(a670 + R670 + b)|/(a2 + 1)1/2) × (R700/R670) a = (R700 − R550)/150, b = R550 − (a × 550) [40] |
GI | Green index | R554/R677[41] |
TVI | Triangular vegetation index | 0.5[120(R750 − R550) − 200(R670 − R550)] [42] |
Class Precision | Prediction | Ground Truth | Class Precision |
---|---|---|---|
LRASI_1ρ605 | Rust | Healthy | |
Rust | 140 | 20 | 87% |
Healthy | 11 | 127 | 91% |
Class recall | 93% | 86% | 89.5 |
LRASI_2ρ605 | Rust | Healthy | |
Rust | 148 | 22 | 87% |
Healthy | 21 | 135 | 86% |
Class recall | 87% | 86% | 86.5% |
Disease Severity | Classification Error % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
LRASI_1ρ605 | LRASI_2ρ605 | |||
Rust | Healthy | Healthy | Rust | |
1%–5% | 35 | 44 | 47.7 | 32 |
5%–10% | 10.2 | 14.3 | 16 | 17.2 |
10%–20% | 7.2 | 11.6 | 12.4 | 9.8 |
20%–30% | 5.1 | 7.6 | 8.3 | 7.4 |
30%–40% | 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 4.5 |
40%–50% | 3.9 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 5 |
50%–60% | 1.2 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 1.7 |
60%–70% | 3 | 4.7 | 2.4 | 3.7 |
70%–80% | 5.1 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
>80% | 4.8 | 5 | 4.1 | 4.4 |
Disease Severity | Classification Error % | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NBNDVI | NDVI | PRI | ||||
Rust | Healthy | Healthy | Rust | Healthy | Rust | |
1%–5% | 25 | 34 | 29 | 38 | 44 | 43 |
5%–10% | 12 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 19 |
10%–20% | 11 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 18 |
20%–30% | 15 | 10 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 15 |
30%–40% | 14 | 13 | 26 | 18 | 11 | 22 |
40%–50% | 25 | 21 | 26 | 28 | 21 | 28 |
50%–60% | 28 | 29 | 19 | 37 | 29 | 32 |
60%–70% | 31 | 37 | 44 | 36 | 34 | 47 |
70%–80% | 38 | 55 | 47 | 54 | 44 | 61 |
>80% | 53 | 44 | 61 | 52 | 49 | 58 |
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Ashourloo, D.; Mobasheri, M.R.; Huete, A. Developing Two Spectral Disease Indices for Detection of Wheat Leaf Rust (Pucciniatriticina). Remote Sens. 2014, 6, 4723-4740. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6064723
Ashourloo D, Mobasheri MR, Huete A. Developing Two Spectral Disease Indices for Detection of Wheat Leaf Rust (Pucciniatriticina). Remote Sensing. 2014; 6(6):4723-4740. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6064723
Chicago/Turabian StyleAshourloo, Davoud, Mohammad Reza Mobasheri, and Alfredo Huete. 2014. "Developing Two Spectral Disease Indices for Detection of Wheat Leaf Rust (Pucciniatriticina)" Remote Sensing 6, no. 6: 4723-4740. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6064723
APA StyleAshourloo, D., Mobasheri, M. R., & Huete, A. (2014). Developing Two Spectral Disease Indices for Detection of Wheat Leaf Rust (Pucciniatriticina). Remote Sensing, 6(6), 4723-4740. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6064723