Journal article
Development and Validation of a Model to Combine NDVI and Plant Height for High-Throughput Phenotyping of Herbage Yield in a Perennial Ryegrass Breeding Program
Alem Gebremedhin, Pieter Badenhorst, Junping Wang, Khageswor Giri, German Spangenberg, Kevin Smith
REMOTE SENSING | MDPI | Published : 2019
DOI: 10.3390/rs11212494
Abstract
Sensor-based phenotyping technologies may offer a non-destructive, high-throughput and efficient assessment of herbage yield (HY) to replace current inefficient phenotyping methods. This paper assesses the feasibility of combining normalised difference vegetative index (NDVI) from multispectral imaging and ultrasonic sonar estimates of plant height to estimate HY of single plants in a large perennial ryegrass breeding program. For sensor calibration, fresh HY (FHY) and dry HY (DHY) were acquired destructively, and plant height was measured at four dates each in 2017 and 2018 from a selected subset of 480 plants. Global multiple linear regression models based on K-fold and random split cross-..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research was funded by Agriculture Victoria and Dairy Australia through the DairyBio initiative and The University of Melbourne.