Comparison of Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Winter Wheat Yield in Germany

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01282v1
• Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 04:40:53 GMT
• Title: Comparison of Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Winter Wheat Yield in Germany
• Authors: Amit Kumar Srivastava, Nima Safaei, Saeed Khaki, Gina Lopez, Wenzhi Zeng, Frank Ewert, Thomas Gaiser, Jaber Rahimi
• Abstract summary: This study analyzed the performance of different machine learning methods for winter wheat yield prediction. To address the seasonality, weekly features were used that explicitly take soil moisture conditions and meteorological events into account.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This study analyzed the performance of different machine learning methods for winter wheat yield prediction using extensive datasets of weather, soil, and crop phenology. To address the seasonality, weekly features were used that explicitly take soil moisture conditions and meteorological events into account. Our results indicated that nonlinear models such as deep neural networks (DNN) and XGboost are more effective in finding the functional relationship between the crop yield and input data compared to linear models. The results also revealed that the deep neural networks often had a higher prediction accuracy than XGboost. One of the main limitations of machine learning models is their black box property. As a result, we moved beyond prediction and performed feature selection, as it provides key results towards explaining yield prediction (variable importance by time). The feature selection method estimated the individual effect of weather components, soil conditions, and phenology variables as well as the time that these variables become important. As such, our study indicates which variables have the most significant effect on winter wheat yield.

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