Maize yield prediction based on artificial intelligence using spatio-temporal data
Publication Name: Precision Agriculture 2019 Papers Presented at the 12th European Conference on Precision Agriculture Ecpa 2019
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Volume: Unknown
Issue: Unknown
Page Range: 1011-1017
Description:
The aim of this study was to predict maize yield by artificial intelligence using spatio-temporal training data. Counter-propagation artificial neural networks (CP-ANNs), XY-fused networks (XY-Fs), supervised Kohonen networks (SKNs), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) and support-vector machine (SVM) were used for predicting maize yield in 5 vegetation periods. Input variables for modelling were: soil parameters (pH, P2 O5 , K2 O, Zn, Clay content, ECa, draught force, Cone index), and micro-relief averages and meteorological parameters for the 63 treatment units. The best performing method (XGBoost) attained 92.1 and 95.3% of accuracy on the training and the test set.
Open Access: Yes