Research on methods of diagnosing crop water-deficiency based on image processing
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DOI:10.7606/j.issn.1000-7601.2013.01.18
Key Words: corn  leaf water deficiency  diagnosing  image processing  colour feature extr action  linear regression
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XU Tengfei College of Mechanical and Electric Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Y angling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
HAN Wenting Institute of Water Saving Agriculture in Area Regions of China, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, China Academy of Sciences, YanglingShaanxi 712100, China 
SUN Yu College of Mechanical and Electric Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Y angling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
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Abstract:
      Digital image processing techniques were used to evaluate crop water stress, by cultivating 90 plants of corn with different irrigation amounts in a greenhouse. The Canon IXUS110 digital camera with 12.1 million pixels was used to capture the images of corn leaves after being picked from the plants during the heading stage, and then the moisture content of the leaves was detected by using drying method. The eigenvalues of mean, kurtosis, variance, skew degree, energy and ent ropy were calculated by using grey histogram of leaf images. The data extracted from the leaves of 20 samples were used to set up the linear regression model sh owing the relationship between the mean and the leaf moisture, and the other 20 samples were used to verify the model. The standard deviation of the validation results was 0.021. It was concluded that of the eigenvalue of mean of leaf image s could be used to predict the moisture content in corn leaves.