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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (1): 151-156.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2023-0031

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Estimating Equivalent Water Thickness of Tobacco Leaves Based on Water Hyperspectral Indices

JIA Fangfang1,2(), TENG Shihua3(), HE Lin1, FU Anqi1, CHEN Shuping1, ZHAO Zhongyuan1   

  1. 1 Department of Biology and Food, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, Henan 476000
    2 School of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001
    3 Yunnan Oriental Tobacco Co., Ltd., Baoshan, Yunnan 678000
  • Received:2023-01-10 Revised:2023-08-30 Online:2024-01-05 Published:2023-12-29

Abstract:

In order to timely and accurately monitor the tobacco leaf moisture status, this study conducted water stress experiments on different flue-cured tobacco varieties for over two consecutive years (2020 and 2021). The spectral reflectance and leaf equivalent water thickness (EWT) of tobacco leaves were measured, and the water spectral indices based on EWT were screened out and used to construct a prediction model. The results showed that: (1) the leaf equivalent water thickness of different tobacco genotypes decreased with the reduction of irrigation amount. (2) The spectral reflectance of tobacco leaves under different moisture treatments varied regularly in the visible and near-infrared wavelength ranges. (3) The spectral sensitive regions of EWT were mainly concentrated in the visible region of 500-600 nm, the near-infrared region of 700-900 nm and 1000-1250 nm, and the short-wave infrared region of 1900-2000 nm. The optimal water spectral indices were NDWI (R1920, R1930) and SRWI (R1930, R1920), and the core bands for EWT were 1920 nm and 1930 nm. (4) The accuracy and stability result of ELM was the best in the different linear and nonlinear prediction models of EWT prediction models, with the model decision coefficient of 0.853, the validation decision coefficient of 0.855, and the RMSE of 0.004. This indicates that water spectral indices combined with nonlinear models can be utilized to predict the moisture content in tobacco leaves.

Key words: tobacco leaf, equivalent water thickness, water hyperspectral characteristic parameters, prediction model, extreme learning machine