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Analysis of spectral difference between the foreside and backside of leaves in yellow rust disease detection for winter wheat

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Disease detection by means of hyperspectral reflectance is inevitably influenced by the spectral difference between foreside (adaxial surface) and backside (abaxial surface) of a leaf. Taking yellow rust disease in winter wheat as an example, the spectral differences between the foreside and backside of healthy and diseased wheat leaves at both jointing stage and grain filling stage were investigated based on spectral measurements with a large sample size. The spectral difference between leaf orientations was found to be confused with disease signals to some extent. Firstly, the original bands and spectral features (SFs) that were sensitive to the disease were identified through a correlation analysis. Then, to eliminate the influence of leaf orientation, a pairwise t test was used to screen for the orientation insensitive bands and SFs. By conducting an overlapping procedure, the bands/SFs that were sensitive to the disease yet insensitive to the leaf orientations were selected and tested for disease detection. The results suggested that the Ref525–745 nm, Ref1060–1068 nm, DEP920–1120, DEP1070–1320, AREA1070–1320, SR and NDVI at the jointing stage, and the Ref606–697 nm, Ref740–752 nm, WID550–770, SR, NDVI, GNDVI, RDVI, GI and MCARI at the grain filling stage were capable of eliminating the influence of leaf orientation, and were retained for disease detection. Given these features, models based on the partial least square regression analysis showed a better performance at the grain filling stage, with the R 2 of 0.854 and RMSE of 0.104. This result indicated that reliable estimation of disease severity can be made until the grain filling stage. In the future, more attention should be given to leaf orientation when detecting disease at the canopy level.

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This work was subsidized by Beijing Natural Science Foundation (4132029, 4122032), National Natural Science Foundation of China (41271412, 41101395) and National Key Technology R&D Program (2012BAH29B02). The authors are grateful to Mr. Weiguo Li and Mrs. Hong Chang for data collection.

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  1. Institute of Remote Sensing and Information Application, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, People’s Republic of China

    Lin Yuan, Jing-Cheng Zhang, Ke Wang & Ji-Hua Wang

  2. Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, People’s Republic of China

    Lin Yuan, Jing-Cheng Zhang, Ji-Hua Wang & Jin-Ling Zhao

  3. Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100094, People’s Republic of China

    Wen-Jiang Huang

  4. Department of Geography, Environment and Planning, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL, 33620, USA

    Rebecca-W. Loraamm

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Yuan, L., Zhang, JC., Wang, K. et al. Analysis of spectral difference between the foreside and backside of leaves in yellow rust disease detection for winter wheat. Precision Agric 14, 495–511 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-013-9312-y

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