Feature recognition of crop growth information in precision farming

Abstract

To identify plant electrical signals effectively, a new feature extraction method based on multiwavelet entropy and principal component analysis is proposed. The wavelet energy entropy, wavelet singular entropy, and the wavelet variance entropy of plants' electrical signals are extracted by a wavelet transformation to construct the combined features. Principal component analysis (PCA) is applied to treat the constructed features and eliminate redundant information among those features and extract features which can reflect signal type. Finally, the classification method of BP neural network is used to classify the obtained feature vectors. The experimental results show that this method can acquire comparatively high recognition rate, which proposed a new efficient solution for the identification of plant electrical signals.