A Method for Detecting Coffee Leaf Rust through Wireless Sensor Networks, Remote Sensing, and Deep Learning: Case Study of the Caturra Variety in Colombia
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Agricultural activity has always been threatened by the presence of pests and diseases that prevent the proper development of crops and negatively affect the economy of farmers. One of these pests is Coffee Leaf Rust (CLR), which is a fungal epidemic disease that affects coffee trees and causes massive defoliation. As an example, this disease has been affecting coffee trees in Colombia (the third largest producer of coffee worldwide) since the 1980s, leading to devastating losses between 70% and 80% of the harvest. Failure to detect pathogens at an early stage can result in infestations that cause massive destruction of plantations and significantly damage the commercial value of the products. The most common way to detect this disease is by walking through the crop and performing a human visual inspection. As a result of this problem, different research studies have proven that technological methods can help to identify these pathogens. Our contribution is an experiment that includes a CLR development stage diagnostic model in the Coffea arabica, Caturra variety, scale crop through the technological integration of remote sensing (through drone capable multispectral cameras), wireless sensor networks (multisensor approach), and Deep Learning (DL) techniques. Our diagnostic model achieved an F1-score of 0.775. The analysis of the results revealed a p-value of 0.231, which indicated that the difference between the disease diagnosis made employing a visual inspection and through the proposed technological integration was not statistically significant. The above shows that both methods were significantly similar to diagnose the disease.
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OpenAlex topics: Smart Agriculture and AI · Coffee research and impacts · Remote Sensing in Agriculture
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I+D+i on Information Technologies and Communications Research Group, Universidad EAFIT, Carrera 49 No. 7 Sur - 50, Medellín 050022, Colombia
Department of Data Intelligence for Energy and Industrial Processes, Vicomtech Foundation, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Basque Country, Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea, 1, 20018 Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain
Funding
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS) · Universidad EAFIT
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