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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

Evaluating AI for Palm Tree Disease Detection: A Comparative Study of YOLOv8 Object Detection and U-Net Segmentation Using UAV Imagery

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AHAyoub HammadiTU Dortmund UniversityIEIkram EssajaiChouaib Doukkali UniversityCKChaimaa El KihalCadi Ayyad University

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Overview

Comparative study evaluates AI techniques for detecting palm tree diseases, suggesting effective monitoring solutions.

Key Points

  • The central aim is to assess the effectiveness of YOLOv8 and U-Net in detecting and segmenting healthy and diseased palm trees using UAV imagery.
  • Analyzed a dataset of 400 UAV images annotated for training, validation, and testing.
  • Used YOLOv8 for object detection and U-Net for segmentation of palm trees.
  • Evaluated model performance using accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score metrics.
  • YOLOv8 achieved 78.48% accuracy with precision of 58.38% and recall of 47.70%.
  • U-Net excelled with precision of 0.8746, recall of 0.8713, and F1-score of 0.8727.
  • The study demonstrates complementary strengths, with YOLOv8 efficient in detection and U-Net effective in segmentation.

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Hammadi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/696b2696d2a12237a9349e58https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-w17-2025-159-2026
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