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January 17, 2026˜The œinternational archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciencesOpen Access

Deep Learning for Palm Tree Health Assessment: UAV-Based Segmentation in the Figuig Region of Morocco

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AHAyoub HammadiTU Dortmund UniversityIMIliasse MahiUniversity of Hassan II CasablancaHRHassan RhinaneUniversity of Hassan II Casablanca

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Implication

Demonstrates a UAV deep learning approach to classify palm tree health, suggesting significant benefits for large-scale agricultural management.

Key Points

  • The research aims to classify healthy and unhealthy date palm trees using UAV imagery and deep learning techniques.
  • Used UAVs to capture high-resolution RGB orthomosaics of palm trees in the Figuig region.
  • Applied semantic segmentation for pixel-level classification, creating a dataset with three classes: healthy palm, unhealthy palm, and background.
  • Trained and evaluated U-Net and DeepLabV3+ models on a dataset split into training, validation, and testing sets.
  • DeepLabV3+ model achieved a Macro Average F1-score of 82.06%, slightly outperforming U-Net’s 81.28%.
  • Both models effectively identified healthy palms and background but struggled with accurate segmentation of the unhealthy class.
  • Challenges in differentiating stress symptoms from RGB imagery highlight the need for improved data integration.

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Hammadi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/696b25cfd2a12237a93492afhttps://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-w17-2025-169-2026
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