Smart Agricultural–Industrial Crop-Monitoring System Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle–Internet of Things Classification Techniques

K. Vijayalakshmi, Shaha Al-Otaibi, Leena Arya, Mohammed Amin Almaiah (), T. P. Anithaashri, S. Sam Karthik and Rima Shishakly
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K. Vijayalakshmi: Department of Computational Intelligence, School of Computing, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, College of Engineering and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai 603203, Tamil Nadu, India
Shaha Al-Otaibi: Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
Leena Arya: Department of CSE, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram 522502, Andhra Pradesh, India
Mohammed Amin Almaiah: Faculty of Information Technology, Applied Science Private University, Amman 11931, Jordan
T. P. Anithaashri: Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai 602105, Tamil Nadu, India
S. Sam Karthik: Department of EEE, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Engineering, Coimbatore 641105, Tamilnadu, India
Rima Shishakly: Management Department, College of Business Administration, Ajman University, Ajman 346, United Arab Emirates

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 14, 1-20

Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) coupled with machine learning approaches have attracted considerable interest from academicians and industrialists. UAVs provide the advantage of operating and monitoring actions performed in a remote area, making them useful in various applications, particularly the area of smart farming. Even though the expense of controlling UAVs is a key factor in smart farming, this motivates farmers to employ UAVs while farming. This paper proposes a novel crop-monitoring system using a machine learning-based classification with UAVs. This research aims to monitor a crop in a remote area with below-average cultivation and the climatic conditions of the region. First, data are pre-processed via resizing, noise removal, and data cleaning and are then segmented for image enhancement, edge normalization, and smoothing. The segmented image was pre-trained using convolutional neural networks (CNN) to extract features. Through this process, crop abnormalities were detected. When an abnormality in the input data is detected, then these data are classified to predict the crop abnormality stage. Herein, the fast recurrent neural network-based classification technique was used to classify abnormalities in crops. The experiment was conducted by providing the present weather conditions as the input values; namely, the sensor values of temperature, humidity, rain, and moisture. To obtain results, around 32 truth frames were taken into account. Various parameters—namely, accuracy, precision, and specificity—were employed to determine the accuracy of the proposed approach. Aerial images for monitoring climatic conditions were considered for the input data. The data were collected and classified to detect crop abnormalities based on climatic conditions and pre-historic data based on the cultivation of the field. This monitoring system will differentiate between weeds and crops.

Keywords: image segmentation; CNN; UAV; crop-monitoring system; IoT; classification; machine learning; fast recurrent neural networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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