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Estimation Of Soil Moisture At Different Soil Levels Using Machine Learning Techniques And Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Uav) Multispectral Imagery, Mahyar Aboutalebi, L. Niel Allen, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, Mac Mckee, Calvin Coopmans

AggieAir Publications

Soil moisture is a key component of water balance models. Physically, it is a nonlinear function of parameters that are not easily measured spatially, such as soil texture and soil type. Thus, several studies have been conducted on the estimation of soil moisture using remotely sensed data and data mining techniques such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and support vector machines (SVMs). However, all models developed based on these techniques are limited to site-specific applications where they are trained and their parameters are tuned. Moreover, since the system of non-linear equations produced by and conducted in the machine learning process …