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Evaluation of residual plastic film pollution in pre-sowing cotton field using UAV imaging and semantic segmentation

Authors :
Zhiqiang Zhai
Xuegeng Chen
Ruoyu Zhang
Fasong Qiu
Qingjian Meng
Jiankang Yang
Haiyuan Wang
Source :
Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol 13 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Frontiers Media S.A., 2022.

Abstract

To accurately evaluate residual plastic film pollution in pre-sowing cotton fields, a method based on modified U-Net model was proposed in this research. Images of pre-sowing cotton fields were collected using UAV imaging from different heights under different weather conditions. Residual films were manually labelled, and the degree of residual film pollution was defined based on the residual film coverage rate. The modified U-Net model for evaluating residual film pollution was built by simplifying the U-Net model framework and introducing the inception module, and the evaluation results were compared to those of the U-Net, SegNet, and FCN models. The segmentation results showed that the modified U-Net model had the best performance, with a mean intersection over union (MIOU) of 87.53%. The segmentation results on images of cloudy days were better than those on images of sunny days, with accuracy gradually decreasing with increasing image-acquiring height. The evaluation results of residual film pollution showed that the modified U-Net model outperformed the other models. The coefficient of determination(R2), root mean square error (RMSE), mean relative error (MRE) and average evaluation time per image of the modified U-Net model on the CPU were 0.9849, 0.0563, 5.33% and 4.85 s, respectively. The results indicate that UAV imaging combined with the modified U-Net model can accurately evaluate residual film pollution. This study provides technical support for the rapid and accurate evaluation of residual plastic film pollution in pre-sowing cotton fields.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1664462X
Volume :
13
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Frontiers in Plant Science
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.5142ba8f7a11478dbf8e62f81a4944f0
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.991191