Computer Vision for Agricultural Automation - Algorithmic Solutions for Crop Yield Predictions

Computer vision is defined in this study and one of the applications demonstrated is crop yield prediction in agricultural automation. Here we have emphasized on its use for computer vision for the agricultural domain. Using multispectral images that can be obtained from drones satellites and pairs with ground truths of average crop yield, weather conditions and parts of the soil treated with practices performed by an agronomist the proffered methodology would take advantage of the uniqueness of the concept to predict crop production. Further, elaborate machine learning methods such as line regression, decision trees, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and CNN models are applied in order that the ultimate selection of the model would be contingent on the accuracy in relation to a crop yield. The DL based approaches as seen majority of this work and particularly the CNN exhibited improved results over regression models since there are more of classification than regression; In addition DL models are more appropriate for spatial relations and variations characteristic of crop data. Besides that, data fusion methods which map the accuracy of the images, weather and fields data develops a more accurate forecast as proven by the above crop modeling that involves multidimensional data. While transferring on fresh test data, it also demonstrates that the trained models have the capability to use the collected data in order to ∵¬¬¬ not only provide intelligent advices to the farmers on resource goodwill and crop productivity that will pave way for better results. Most importantly therefore for the hear of it the research show that with computer visions and machine learning the agricultural process can be reinvented this is how food security can be improved as the environment evolves.