Abstract
Assessment of crop nitrogen status is essential for efficient crop growth management. Existing nitrogen measurements are accurate but destructive, laborious, and time-consuming. Therefore, the soil plant analysis development (SPAD) meter approach is commonly used to address these challenges along with location-specific measurements. The study aims to develop a robust machine learning-based model for predicting rice crop SPAD values using spectral data and to generate spatial maps of SPAD values and nitrogen content. The SPAD meter data, UAV-based multispectral images, and spectroradiometer-based data were collected during Rabi 2021/22 and 2022/23 seasons. The red and red-edge bands, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and Normalized Pigment Chlorophyll Index correlated well with SPAD values. The random forest regressor model performed well with UAV-based data compared to support vector regression and partial least square regression and achieved good accuracy with the ground truth spectroradiometer data. This generalized model demonstrates adaptability in precisely assessing crop nitrogen status.
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