Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images

Soil roughness, defined as the irregularities of the soil surface, yields significant information about soil water storage, infiltration and overland flow and, thus, is a key factor in characterizing the quality of the terrain; it is often used as input in many synthetic general agricultural models...

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Main Authors: M. Ivanovici, S. Popa, K. Marandskiy, C. Florea
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
Series:European Journal of Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22797254.2024.2342955
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S. Popa
K. Marandskiy
C. Florea
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description Soil roughness, defined as the irregularities of the soil surface, yields significant information about soil water storage, infiltration and overland flow and, thus, is a key factor in characterizing the quality of the terrain; it is often used as input in many synthetic general agricultural models and in particular in soil moisture estimation models. In this paper, we propose a framework that combines a specific setup for data acquisition with deep convolutional networks for actual estimation. The former relies on projecting a line red laser beam on the analysed soil surface followed by digital color image acquisition. The later, involves two convolutional models that are trained in a supervised manner to predict the soil roughness. The data set was produced in the laboratory both on synthetic and real soil samples. The labels used in the training process are the soil roughness values measured by using a pinboard. The detailed evaluation showed that the error of the automatic precision lies in the range of ground truth deviation, thus validating the proposed procedure.
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spelling doaj-art-b02f439002f54f79bbc3ff00b919b1522025-08-20T02:33:44ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEuropean Journal of Remote Sensing2279-72542024-12-0157110.1080/22797254.2024.2342955Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital imagesM. Ivanovici0S. Popa1K. Marandskiy2C. Florea3MIV Laboratory, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, RomaniaMIV Laboratory, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, RomaniaMIV Laboratory, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, RomaniaMIV Laboratory, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, RomaniaSoil roughness, defined as the irregularities of the soil surface, yields significant information about soil water storage, infiltration and overland flow and, thus, is a key factor in characterizing the quality of the terrain; it is often used as input in many synthetic general agricultural models and in particular in soil moisture estimation models. In this paper, we propose a framework that combines a specific setup for data acquisition with deep convolutional networks for actual estimation. The former relies on projecting a line red laser beam on the analysed soil surface followed by digital color image acquisition. The later, involves two convolutional models that are trained in a supervised manner to predict the soil roughness. The data set was produced in the laboratory both on synthetic and real soil samples. The labels used in the training process are the soil roughness values measured by using a pinboard. The detailed evaluation showed that the error of the automatic precision lies in the range of ground truth deviation, thus validating the proposed procedure.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22797254.2024.2342955Soil roughnessconvolutional neural networksVGG-11ResNet-18
spellingShingle M. Ivanovici
S. Popa
K. Marandskiy
C. Florea
Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images
European Journal of Remote Sensing
Soil roughness
convolutional neural networks
VGG-11
ResNet-18
title Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images
title_full Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images
title_fullStr Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images
title_full_unstemmed Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images
title_short Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images
title_sort deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images
topic Soil roughness
convolutional neural networks
VGG-11
ResNet-18
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22797254.2024.2342955
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