Combining fuzzy set theory and nonlinear stretching enhancement for unsupervised classification of cotton root rot

Huaibo Song; Chenghai Yang; Jian Zhang; Dongjian He; John A. Thomasson

doi:10.1117/1.JRS.9.096013

26 August 2015 Combining fuzzy set theory and nonlinear stretching enhancement for unsupervised classification of cotton root rot

Huaibo Song, Chenghai Yang, Jian Zhang, Dongjian He, John A. Thomasson

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 096013 (August 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.9.096013

Abstract

Cotton root rot is a destructive disease affecting cotton production. Accurate identification of infected areas within fields is useful for cost-effective control of the disease. The uncertainties caused by various infection stages and newly infected plants make it difficult to achieve accurate classification results from airborne imagery. The objectives of this study were to apply fuzzy set theory and nonlinear stretching enhancement to airborne multispectral imagery for unsupervised classification of cotton root rot infections. Four cotton fields near Edroy and San Angelo, Texas, were selected for this study. Airborne multispectral imagery was taken and the color-infrared (CIR) composite images were used for classification. The intensity component was enhanced by using a fuzzy-set based method, and the saturation component was enhanced by a nonlinear stretching image enhancement algorithm. The enhanced CIR composite images were then classified into infected and noninfected areas. Iterative self organization data analysis and adaptive Otsu’s method were used to compare the performance of the proposed image enhancement method. The results showed that image enhancement has improved the classification accuracy of these two unsupervised classification methods for all four fields. The results from this study will be useful for detection of cotton root rot and for site-specific treatment of the disease.

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Huaibo Song, Chenghai Yang, Jian Zhang, Dongjian He, and John A. Thomasson "Combining fuzzy set theory and nonlinear stretching enhancement for unsupervised classification of cotton root rot," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 9(1), 096013 (26 August 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.9.096013

Published: 26 August 2015

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