Determination of Soil Texture Using Image Processing Technique

Abstract

Agriculture is the backbone of world’s economy and it is one of the largest employment sectors. Nowadays, the population is growing fast and simultaneously, the total cultivable land is lessening drastically. Soil texture has a significant impact on the agriculture affecting crop selection and crop growth. This paper presents the development of soil texture detection and pH value determination of the soil using the image processing technique. In this paper, two methods have been applied to identify the soil texture using two color-space methods in the MATLAB toolbox, which are the Hue Saturation Value (HSV) and Red Green Blue (RGB) color method. Furthermore, to determine the pH value of the soil, an image processing algorithm was applied to obtain the desired output. Moreover, these two proposed methods were applied in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) in MATLAB software. The proposed system is expected to contribute to the community by saving human effort, increases efficiency and generates more accurate results in shorter time.