The invention provides a method for monitoring the
population density of rice planthoppers by an unmanned aerial vehicle for the field of agricultural pests. In order to solve the problems that rice planthoppers are seriously damaged and efficient
monitoring methods are lacked, the method for monitoring the
population density of the rice planthoppers by collecting rice multispectral images through an unmanned aerial vehicle is provided and is characterized in that the unmanned aerial vehicle is used for carrying a multispectral camera to collect rice
canopy multispectral images, and the
population density of the rice planthoppers is investigated; extracting green, red, red edge and near-
infrared reflectivity and texture indexes of the rice
canopy; utilizing a continuous projection
algorithm to screen
reflectivity and texture indexes sensitive to the rice
planthopper population density, and utilizing the screened indexes to establish a rice
planthopper population density monitoring BP neural network and a
random forest model; performing unmanned aerial vehicle
multispectral image acquisition on rice in a to-be-detected area, extracting spectral
reflectivity and texture indexes, and inputting the spectral reflectivity and the texture indexes into the model to monitor the rice
planthopper population density. According to the method, the unmanned aerial vehicle is used for collecting the
multispectral image simply and quickly, the monitoring precision is high, and a new method is provided for monitoring large-area rice planthoppers.