UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub-humid conditions: a case of African eggplant

UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices are often used to assess crop performance and water consumptive use. However, their ability to assess the interaction between water, especially deficit irrigation, and nitrogen application rates in irrigated agriculture has been less explored. Understanding...

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Autores principales: Mwinuka, P. R., Mourice, S. K., Mbungu, W. B., Mbilinyi, B. P., Tumbo, S. D., Schmitter, Petra S.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119187
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author Mwinuka, P. R.
Mourice, S. K.
Mbungu, W. B.
Mbilinyi, B. P.
Tumbo, S. D.
Schmitter, Petra S.
author_browse Mbilinyi, B. P.
Mbungu, W. B.
Mourice, S. K.
Mwinuka, P. R.
Schmitter, Petra S.
Tumbo, S. D.
author_facet Mwinuka, P. R.
Mourice, S. K.
Mbungu, W. B.
Mbilinyi, B. P.
Tumbo, S. D.
Schmitter, Petra S.
author_sort Mwinuka, P. R.
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description UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices are often used to assess crop performance and water consumptive use. However, their ability to assess the interaction between water, especially deficit irrigation, and nitrogen application rates in irrigated agriculture has been less explored. Understanding the effect of water-nitrogen interactions on vegetation indices could further support optimal water and N management. Therefore, this study used a split plot design with water being the main factor and N being the sub-factor. African eggplants were drip irrigated at 100% (I100), 80% (I80) or 60% (I60) of the crop water requirements and received 100% (F100), 75% (F75), 50% (F50) or 0% (F0) of the crop N requirements. Results showed that the transformed difference vegetation index (TDVI) was best in distinguishing differences in leaf moisture content (LMC) during the vegetative stage irrespective of the N treatment. The green normalized difference vegetation index (GNDVI) worked well to distinguish leaf N during vegetative and full vegetative stages. However, the detection of the interactive effect of water and N on crop performance required a combination of GNDVI, NDVI and OSAVI across both stages as each of these 3 VI showed an ability to detect some but not all treatments. The fact that a certain amount of irrigation water can optimize the efficiency of N uptake by the plant is an important criterion to consider in developing crop specific VI based decision trees for crop performance assessments and yield prediction.
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spelling CGSpace1191872025-10-26T13:02:45Z UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub-humid conditions: a case of African eggplant Mwinuka, P. R. Mourice, S. K. Mbungu, W. B. Mbilinyi, B. P. Tumbo, S. D. Schmitter, Petra S. crop production water use efficiency nitrogen unmanned aerial vehicles irrigated farming vegetation index water stress subhumid climate horticulture eggplants crop yield irrigation water water requirements UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices are often used to assess crop performance and water consumptive use. However, their ability to assess the interaction between water, especially deficit irrigation, and nitrogen application rates in irrigated agriculture has been less explored. Understanding the effect of water-nitrogen interactions on vegetation indices could further support optimal water and N management. Therefore, this study used a split plot design with water being the main factor and N being the sub-factor. African eggplants were drip irrigated at 100% (I100), 80% (I80) or 60% (I60) of the crop water requirements and received 100% (F100), 75% (F75), 50% (F50) or 0% (F0) of the crop N requirements. Results showed that the transformed difference vegetation index (TDVI) was best in distinguishing differences in leaf moisture content (LMC) during the vegetative stage irrespective of the N treatment. The green normalized difference vegetation index (GNDVI) worked well to distinguish leaf N during vegetative and full vegetative stages. However, the detection of the interactive effect of water and N on crop performance required a combination of GNDVI, NDVI and OSAVI across both stages as each of these 3 VI showed an ability to detect some but not all treatments. The fact that a certain amount of irrigation water can optimize the efficiency of N uptake by the plant is an important criterion to consider in developing crop specific VI based decision trees for crop performance assessments and yield prediction. 2022-05 2022-03-31T04:09:32Z 2022-03-31T04:09:32Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119187 en Open Access Elsevier Mwinuka, P. R.; Mourice, S. K.; Mbungu, W. B.; Mbilinyi, B. P.; Tumbo, S. D.; Schmitter, Petra. 2022. UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub-humid conditions: a case of African eggplant. Agricultural Water Management, 266:107516. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107516]
spellingShingle crop production
water use efficiency
nitrogen
unmanned aerial vehicles
irrigated farming
vegetation index
water stress
subhumid climate
horticulture
eggplants
crop yield
irrigation water
water requirements
Mwinuka, P. R.
Mourice, S. K.
Mbungu, W. B.
Mbilinyi, B. P.
Tumbo, S. D.
Schmitter, Petra S.
UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub-humid conditions: a case of African eggplant
title UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub-humid conditions: a case of African eggplant
title_full UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub-humid conditions: a case of African eggplant
title_fullStr UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub-humid conditions: a case of African eggplant
title_full_unstemmed UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub-humid conditions: a case of African eggplant
title_short UAV-based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub-humid conditions: a case of African eggplant
title_sort uav based multispectral vegetation indices for assessing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen in irrigated horticultural crops production under tropical sub humid conditions a case of african eggplant
topic crop production
water use efficiency
nitrogen
unmanned aerial vehicles
irrigated farming
vegetation index
water stress
subhumid climate
horticulture
eggplants
crop yield
irrigation water
water requirements
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119187
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