Early Estimation of Tomato Yield by Decision Tree Ensembles
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2022
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13 p.
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Crop yield forecasting allows farmers to make decisions in advance to improve farm management and logistics during and after harvest. In this sense, crop yield potential maps are an asset for farmers making decisions about farm management and planning. Although scientific efforts have been made to determine crop yields from in situ information and through remote sensing, most studies are limited to evaluating data from a single date just before harvest. This has a direct negative impact on the quality and predictability of these estimates, especially for logistics. This study proposes a methodology for the early prediction of tomato yield using decision tree ensembles, vegetation spectral indices, and shape factors from images captured by multispectral sensors on board an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during different phenological stages of crop development. With the predictive model developed and based on the collection of training characteristics for 6 weeks before harvest, the tomato yield was estimated for a 0.4 ha plot, obtaining an error rate of 9.28%.
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Espinoza-Salgado, A.; García-Pedrero, A.; Souto, C.; Holzapfel, E.; Gonzalo-Martín, C.; Somos-Valenzuela, M.; Rivera, D. Early Estimation of Tomato Yield by Decision Tree Ensembles. Agriculture 2022, 12, 1655. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/agriculture12101655
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Decision tree ensemble, Crop yield, UAVs