An AI-supported, intelligent and
modular system for monitoring
plant health for
precision agriculture, consisting of: a deployment device configured for field surveillance, the deployment device being selected either as an airborne
drone platform for aerial surveillance or as a ground-based rover platform for ground-based surveillance, depending on the
field size and
terrain; A detachable sensor module attached to the deployment device for acquiring
field monitoring data, wherein the detachable transmitting module comprises: an embedded
edge computing unit; a red-green-blue (RGB) camera; a near-
infrared (NIR) camera; a temperature sensor; a
position sensor; calibration reference targets stored on the
edge computing unit; and a
wireless communication interface, wherein the embedded
edge computing unit is configured to: synchronize
data acquisition from the RGB camera, the NIR camera, and the temperature sensor; acquire high-resolution images with the RGB camera and the NIR camera; and
record temperature data,
humidity data, and
metadata including timestamps, elevation, orientation, and coordinates; an
external storage medium that is connected via the
wireless communication interface to the embedded edge computing unit of the detachable sensor module and receives all data captured by multiple sensors and the camera in real time from the embedded edge computing unit; and A desktop application runs on an external
computer device with a processor, and this external
computer device is connected to an
external storage medium. The data stored on the
external storage medium is shared with the desktop application.The desktop application includes a computing module that performs the following functions: retrieving the captured data from the external storage medium; preprocessing the captured data through
noise reduction, illumination normalization,
radiometric correction, and
image alignment; calculating
vegetation indices, consisting of the
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Green
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI), from the preprocessed data; applying
artificial intelligence models to identify
plant stress states based on the
vegetation indices; segmenting an agricultural field into multiple health zones based on the identified
plant stress states; assigning a
severity level to each health zone; and generating recommendations for each health zone based on the
severity level.