A Computer vision-based model for crop yield prediction using remote sensing data

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dc.contributor.authorKiragu, Daniel Mburu
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-19T08:20:45Z
dc.date.available2022-04-19T08:20:45Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionA Thesis Submitted to the School of Computing and Engineering Sciences in Partial Fulfilment for the Requirement of the Degree of Master of Science in Information Technology of Strathmore Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractArguably, crop yield data forms the most important measure of crop productivity in agriculture. With adequate crop yield data, local and international bodies can develop effective agricultural policy leading up to sustainable food supplies and elevated food security. However, timely acquisition of crop yield data can be a cumbersome task as existing crop yield prediction approaches face numerous challenges. In this study, these challenges are identified as high cost and high dimensionality of data required for the prediction activities as well as limited scaling of the resultant prediction models. In efforts of overcoming these challenges, this study leveraged an alternative source of data to design and develop a cheap, accurate and scalable deep learning model using convolutional neural networks. Satellite imagery datasets were used as the primary and only source of data for training the model. This benefited the study in two major ways. Firstly, off, the approach automatically took care of the high dimensionality problem as demonstrated in the GEMS data. Second, satellite imagery data is readily available globally, a factor that greatly reduced the costs needed to collect real-time data for the study. Validation of the developed model was done using 10% of the overall dataset acquired. Reliability of the model in performing crop yield predictions was captured using an MSE loss function for each epoch trained. Cumulatively, the model achieved an MSE loss score of 3.6.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11071/12756
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherStrathmore Universityen_US
dc.subjectDeep Learningen_US
dc.subjectConvolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)en_US
dc.subjectCrop Yield Predictionen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.titleA Computer vision-based model for crop yield prediction using remote sensing dataen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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