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Table 2 Estimated aboveground biomass (AGB) and panicle biomass (PB) in rice by random forest (RF) method

From: Dynamic monitoring of biomass of rice under different nitrogen treatments using a lightweight UAV with dual image-frame snapshot cameras

Camera type

Features

Estimation

AGB

PB

RGB

VDVI, NGRDI, VARI, GRRI, VEG, MGRVI, Hcsm

r2

0.85

0.48

  

RMSEP

0.23

0.13

  

RRMSE

15.57%

16.93%

Multispectral

NDSI, SR, MNDSI

r2

0.83

0.53

  

RMSEP

0.25

0.12

  

RRMSE

17.02%

14.91%

RGB + multispectral

VDVI, NGRDI, VARI, GRRI, VEG, MGRVI, NDSI, SR, MNDSI, Hcsm

r2

0.90

0.64

  

RMSEP

0.21

0.11

  

RRMSE

14.05%

13.74%

  1. The r2, RMSEP and RRMSE represent the coefficient of determination, the prediction of root mean square error and relative RMSE, respectively