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March 30, 2024Remote Sensing Applications Society and EnvironmentOpen Access

Large-scale assessment of date palm plantations based on UAV remote sensing and multiscale vision transformer

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MGMohamed Barakat A. GibrilUniversity of SharjahHSHelmi Zulhaidi Mohd ShafriUniversiti Putra MalaysiaASAbdallah ShanablehRISE Research Institutes of Sweden

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Implication

Machine learning study demonstrates accurate detection and health monitoring of date palms via drone imagery, highlighting scalable precision agriculture tools.

Key Points

  • To develop an automated, transformer-based computer vision framework for detecting, counting, and assessing the health of date palm trees using large-scale UAV imagery.
  • Integrated a multiscale vision transformer with a feature pyramid network, Mask R–CNN, and slicing-aided hyper inference to process high-resolution drone imagery.
  • Employed transfer learning to classify palm health, distinguishing between healthy trees and those with severe pest infestations.
  • Compared model performance against multiple convolutional baseline architectures, including Mask R–CNN, Cascade Mask R–CNN, Point-based Rendering, and YOLACT.
  • Achieved F-scores of 94.33% for tree detection and 94.2% for instance segmentation, outperforming all benchmarked convolutional neural networks.
  • Identified overall tree health condition and severe pest infestations with an F-score of 88.4%.

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Gibril et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a72c04dac440176ef2ad4d5https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101195
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