RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Estimating leaf carotenoid content in vineyards using high resolution hyperspectral imagery acquired from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) A1 Martín Peña, Pedro A1 González García, María Rosa A1 Guillén Climent, Mariluz A1 Hernández Clemente, Rocío A1 Zarco Tejada, Pablo J. A1 Catalina, Álvaro K1 Vinos y vinificación K1 Viticultura K1 Carotenoides foliare K1 Uva K1 3309.29 Vino K1 3107.01 Producción de Cultivos AB Chlorophyll a+b (Ca+b) and carotenoids (Cx+c) are leaf pigments associated with photosynthesis, participation in light harvesting and energy transfer, quenching and photoprotection. This manuscript makes progress on developing methods for leaf carotenoid content estimation, using high resolution hyperspectral imagery acquired from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Imagery was acquired over 3 years using two different UAV platforms, a 6-band multispectral camera and a micro-hyperspectral imager flown with 260 bands at 1.85nm/pixel and 12-bit radiometric resolution, yielding 40cm pixel size and a FWHM of 6.4nm with a 25-μm slit in the 400-885nm spectral region. Field data collections were conducted in August 2009-2011 in the western area of Ribera del Duero Appellation d'Origine, northern Spain. A total of twelve full production vineyards and two study plots per field were selected to ensure appropriate variability in leaf biochemistry and vine physiological conditions. Leaves were collected for destructive sampling and biochemical determination of chlorophyll a+b and carotenoids conducted in the laboratory. In addition to leaf sampling and biochemical determination, canopy structural parameters, such as grid size, number of vines within each plot, trunk height, plant height and width, and row orientation, were measured on each 10m×10m plot. The R515/R570 index recently proposed for carotenoid estimation in conifer forest canopies was explored for vineyards in this study. The PROSPECT-5 leaf radiative transfer model, which simulates the carotenoid and chlorophyll content effects on leaf reflectance and transmittance, was linked to the SAILH and FLIGHT canopy-level radiative transfer models, as well as to simpler approximations based on infinite reflectance R∞ formulations. The objective was to simulate the pure vine reflectance without soil and shadow effects due to the high resolution hyperspectral imagery acquired from the UAV, which enabled targeting pure vines. The simulation results obtained with synthetic spectra demonstrated the effects due to Ca+b content on leaf Cx+c estimation when the R515/R570 index was used. Therefore, scaling up methods were proposed for leaf carotenoid content estimation based on the combined R515/R570 (sensitive to Cx+c) and TCARI/OSAVI (sensitive to Ca+b) narrow-band indices. Results demonstrated the feasibility of mapping leaf carotenoid concentration at the pure-vine level from high resolution hyperspectral imagery, yielding a root mean square error (RMSE) below 1.3μg/cm2 and a relative RMSE (R-RMSE) of 14.4% (FLIGHT) and 12.9% (SAILH) for the 2 years of hyperspectral imagery. The simpler formulation based on the infinite reflectance model by Yamada and Fujimura yielded lower errors (RMSE=0.87μg/cm2; R-RMSE<9.7%), although the slope deviated more from the 1:1 line. Maps showing the spatial variability of leaf carotenoid content were estimated using this methodology, which targeted pure vines without shadow and background effects. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. PB Elsevier SN 0168-1923 YR 2013 FD 2013 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67380 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67380 LA eng NO Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2013, vol. 171-172, pp. 281-94 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 23-jun-2024