Wheat Plant Disease Detection Using CNN on Real-Time UAV Images

Crop diseases pose significant threats to agricultural yields due to their potential for widespread devastation. Precise protection strategies are crucial to address varying disease levels in wheat cultivation, including wheat yellow rust disease, loose smut, powdery mildew, and leaf blight. In the pursuit of sustainable agricultural management, there's a pressing need for a rapid and dependable method to assess these afflictions at the individual plant leaf level. Our research primarily focuses on extensive field-level detection of rust severity in wheat crops using deep learning networks and multispectral data from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). We've developed a real-time solution tailored to vast UAV-collected image datasets. Our multifaceted methodology includes employing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to distinguish disease categories. Our approach achieves exceptional accuracy, surpassing state-of-the-art models while significantly reducing computational resources by over fifty percent.