Retrieval of Chlorophyll Content from Leaf Reflectance Spectra Using Support Vector Machine

Abstract

The chlorophyll content in crop leaf is an indicator of health situation and the crop yield. Hence, it is very important to retrieval of accurate chlorophyll content in paddy rice. This research selected Zhengyi town of Suzhou city as the study area, measurements were acquired during the summer of 2009, in a field campaign in which for 288 rice leaf samples, rice hyperspectral data was measured by ASD FieldSpec3 spectrometer, chlorophyll content was measured by using a SPAD-502 chlorophyll meter. And the parameters of support vector machine were optimized by genetic algorithm, then support vector machine and PROSPECT radiative transfer model were adopted to build estimation model, which used to retrieve the chlorophyll content of rice. The results indicate that: the coefficient of determination for the rice chlorophyll estimation model is 0.8825, and RMSE is 8.7491. Research of this paper provides some reference for quickly and accurately estimating the chlorophyll content in rice.