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Aiming at the technical bottleneck of monitoring rice stalk, pest, and grass damage in the middle and lower parts of rice, this paper proposes a UAV-based image information acquisition method and disease prediction algorithm model, which provides an efficient and low-cost solution for the accurate early monitoring of rice diseases, and helps improve the scientific and intelligent level of agricultural disease prevention and control. Firstly, the UAV image acquisition system was designed and equipped with an automatic telescopic rod, 360° automatic turntable, and high-definition image sensing equipment to achieve multi-angle and high-precision data acquisition in the middle and lower regions of rice plants. At the same time, a path planning algorithm and ant colony algorithm were introduced to design the flight layout path of the UAV and improve the coverage and stability of image acquisition. In terms of image information processing, this paper proposes a multi-dimensional data fusion scheme, which combines RGB, infrared, and hyperspectral data to achieve the deep fusion of information in different bands. In disease prediction, the YOLOv8 target detection algorithm and lightweight Transformer network are adopted to determine the detection performance of small targets. The experimental results showed that the average accuracy of the YOLOv8 model ([email protected]) in the detection of rice curl disease was 90.13%, which was much higher than that of traditional methods such as Faster R-CNN and SSD. In addition, 1496 disease images and autonomous data sets were collected to verify that the system showed good stability and practicability in field environment.

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Title
A Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Image Information Acquisition Technique for the Middle and Lower Sections of Rice Plants and a Predictive Algorithm Model for Pest and Disease Detection
Author
Guo, Xiaoyan 1 ; Ou, Yuanzhen 1 ; Deng, Konghong 1 ; Fan, Xiaolong 1 ; Gao, Ruitao 1 ; Zhou, Zhiyan 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; [email protected] (X.G.); [email protected] (K.D.); [email protected] (R.G.); Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Artificial Intelligence (GDKL-AAI), Guangzhou 510642, China; Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Aviation Application (ERCAAA), Guangzhou 510642, China 
 Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; [email protected] (X.G.); [email protected] (K.D.); [email protected] (R.G.); Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Artificial Intelligence (GDKL-AAI), Guangzhou 510642, China; Guangdong Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Aviation Application (ERCAAA), Guangzhou 510642, China; Key Laboratory of Key Technology on Agricultural Machine and Equipment (South China Agricultural University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510642, China 
Publication title
Volume
15
Issue
7
First page
790
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
MDPI AG
Place of publication
Basel
Country of publication
Switzerland
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e-ISSN
20770472
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
Document type
Journal Article
Publication history
 
 
Online publication date
2025-04-07
Milestone dates
2024-12-25 (Received); 2025-02-20 (Accepted)
Publication history
 
 
   First posting date
07 Apr 2025
ProQuest document ID
3188771987
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2025-04-11
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