MIS-ME: A Multi-modal Framework for Soil Moisture Estimation

Soil moisture estimation is an important task to enable precision agriculture in creating optimal plans for irrigation, fertilization, and harvest. It is common to utilize statistical and machine learning models to estimate soil moisture from traditional data sources such as weather forecasts, soil...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Rakib, Mohammed, Adil Aman Mohammed, D Cole Diggins, Sharma, Sumit, Sadler, Jeff Michael, Ochsner, Tyson, Bagavathi, Arun
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 21.08.2024
Subjects
Ground stations
Image enhancement
Image resolution
Machine learning
Meteorological data
Software
Soil analysis
Soil moisture
Soil properties
Weather forecasting
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Summary:Soil moisture estimation is an important task to enable precision agriculture in creating optimal plans for irrigation, fertilization, and harvest. It is common to utilize statistical and machine learning models to estimate soil moisture from traditional data sources such as weather forecasts, soil properties, and crop properties. However, there is a growing interest in utilizing aerial and geospatial imagery to estimate soil moisture. Although these images capture high-resolution crop details, they are expensive to curate and challenging to interpret. Imagine, an AI-enhanced software tool that predicts soil moisture using visual cues captured by smartphones and statistical data given by weather forecasts. This work is a first step towards that goal of developing a multi-modal approach for soil moisture estimation. In particular, we curate a dataset consisting of real-world images taken from ground stations and their corresponding weather data. We also propose MIS-ME - Meteorological & Image based Soil Moisture Estimator, a multi-modal framework for soil moisture estimation. Our extensive analysis shows that MIS-ME achieves a MAPE of 10.14%, outperforming traditional unimodal approaches with a reduction of 3.25% in MAPE for meteorological data and 2.15% in MAPE for image data, highlighting the effectiveness of tailored multi-modal approaches. Our code and dataset will be available at https://github.com/OSU-Complex-Systems/MIS-ME.git.
ISSN:2331-8422