Due to the vital importance of promptly controlling plant diseases and the challenges facing today's agricultural disease management techniques, a novel framework has been introduced for detecting crop disease. This paper proposes a new methodology for detecting cotton leaf disease using multi-modal deep learning approaches. Since the early control of plant diseases is paramount and commonly utilized methods for managing agricultural diseases suffer in practice, a new framework for disease detection has been proposed. Inspecting modern deep learning algorithms concerning the analysis of images and processing for pattern recognition, we design a system utilizing visual indicators of diseases from multiple modalities to improve the detection of diseases in cotton leaves. We propose a new methodology utilizing deep learning algorithms that utilize spectral imagery, thermal imagery, and hyper-spectral images to merge their features and thus accurately identify plant diseases. This system allows measuring the plant’s general health to determine the type of disease symptoms occurring on the leaves of various cotton leaf trees in many environments. Hence, the outcomes of extensive experiments using multi-modal images of plants of various kinds – healthy and diseased – show that quantitative tests confirm the ability of the proposed system to detect different types of early cotton leaf diseases with an accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity equal to or better the results published in the literature, which allows the critical impact of the proposed multi-modal deep learning technique to give an early warning against plant diseases before it spreads in the fields, as well as the other numerous uses of its implementation and availability in agricultural papers and applications while aiding the reaching of the goals for further research and developments on the areas to be used by the governing territories where better scalable and accurate disease detection systems would be necessary for such large-scale agricultural needs and real-time surveillance applications.
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