Xinlei XU

Mrs. Xinlei XU


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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18 December 2025 in Agronomy
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XXXinlei XU
Xinlei XU
XXXingang Xu
Xingang Xu
SXSizhe Xu
Sizhe Xu
YMYang Meng
Yang Meng
GYGuijun Yang
Guijun Yang
TWTuo Wang
Tuo Wang
Assessing Leaf Nitrogen Content (LNC) is critical for evaluating crop nutritional status and monitoring growth. While Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing has become a pivotal tool for nitrogen monitoring at the field scale, current research predominantly relies on uni-modal feature variables. Consequently, the integration of multidimensional feature information for nitrogen assessment remains largely underutilized in existing literature. In this study, the four types of feature variables (two kinds of spectral indices, color space parameters and texture features from UAV images of RGB and multispectral sensors) were extracted from three dimensions, and crop nitrogen-sensitive feature variables were selected by GCA (Gray Correlation Analysis), followed by one fused deep neural network (DNN-F2) for remote sensing monitoring of rice nitrogen and a comparative analysis with five common machine learning algorithms (RF, GPR, PLSR, SVM and ANN). Experimental results indicate that the DNN-F2 model consistently outperformed conventional machine learning algorithms across all three growth stages. Notably, the model achieved an average R2 improvement of 40%, peaking at the rice jointing stage with R2 of 0.72, RMSE of 0.08, and NRMSE of 0.019. The study shows that the fusion of multidimensional feature information from UAVs combined with deep learning algorithms has great potential for nitrogen nutrient monitoring in rice crops, and can also provide technical support to guide decisions on fertilizer application in rice fields.