Prediction of Spatial Winter Wheat Yield by Combining Multiscale Time Series of Vegetation and Meteorological Indices

In the context of climate change and the development of sustainable agricultural, crop yield prediction is key to ensuring food security. In this study, long-term vegetation and meteorological indices were obtained from the MOD09A1 product and daily weather data. Three types of time series data were...

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Main Authors: Hao Xu, Hongfei Yin, Jia Liu, Lei Wang, Wenjie Feng, Hualu Song, Yangyang Fan, Kangkang Qi, Zhichao Liang, WenJie Li, Xiaohu Zhang, Rongjuan Zhang, Shuai Wang
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
Series:Agronomy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/15/5/1114
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Summary:In the context of climate change and the development of sustainable agricultural, crop yield prediction is key to ensuring food security. In this study, long-term vegetation and meteorological indices were obtained from the MOD09A1 product and daily weather data. Three types of time series data were constructed by aggregating data from an 8-day period (DP), 9-month period (MP), and six growth periods (GP). And we developed the yield prediction model by using random forest (RF) and long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. Results showed that the average root mean squared error (RMSE) of the RF model in each province was 0.5 Mg/ha lower than that of the LSTM model. Both the RF and LSTM prediction accuracies increased with the later growth stages data. Partial dependence plots showed that the influence degree of DVI on yield was above 2 Mg/ha. When the time length of the feature variables was shortened to MP or GP, the growing degree days (GDD), average minimum temperature (AveTmin), and effective precipitation (EP) showed stronger nonlinear relationships with the statistical yields.
ISSN:2073-4395