Retrieval of aboveground crop nitrogen content with a hybrid machine learning method

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05043v1
• Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 13:06:59 GMT
• Title: Retrieval of aboveground crop nitrogen content with a hybrid machine learning method
• Authors: Katja Berger, Jochem Verrelst, Jean-Baptiste F\'eret, Tobias Hank, Matthias Wocher, Wolfram Mauser, Gustau Camps-Valls
• Abstract summary: Hyperspectral acquisitions have proven to be the most informative Earth observation data source for estimation of nitrogen (N) content. In the past, empirical algorithms have been widely employed to retrieve information on this biochemical plant component from canopy reflectance. Our study presents a hybrid retrieval method using a physically-based approach combined with machine learning regression to estimate crop N content.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Hyperspectral acquisitions have proven to be the most informative Earth observation data source for the estimation of nitrogen (N) content, which is the main limiting nutrient for plant growth and thus agricultural production. In the past, empirical algorithms have been widely employed to retrieve information on this biochemical plant component from canopy reflectance. However, these approaches do not seek for a cause-effect relationship based on physical laws. Moreover, most studies solely relied on the correlation of chlorophyll content with nitrogen, and thus neglected the fact that most N is bound in proteins. Our study presents a hybrid retrieval method using a physically-based approach combined with machine learning regression to estimate crop N content. Within the workflow, the leaf optical properties model PROSPECT-PRO including the newly calibrated specific absorption coefficients (SAC) of proteins, was coupled with the canopy reflectance model 4SAIL to PROSAIL-PRO. The latter was then employed to generate a training database to be used for advanced probabilistic machine learning methods: a standard homoscedastic Gaussian process (GP) and a heteroscedastic GP regression that accounts for signal-to-noise relations. Both GP models have the property of providing confidence intervals for the estimates, which sets them apart from other machine learners. GP-based band analysis identified optimal spectral settings with ten bands mainly situated in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectral region. Use of well-known protein absorption bands from the literature showed comparative results. Finally, the heteroscedastic GP model was successfully applied on airborne hyperspectral data for N mapping. We conclude that GP algorithms, and in particular the heteroscedastic GP, should be implemented for global agricultural monitoring of aboveground N from future imaging spectroscopy data.

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