| dc.description.abstract | This study evaluated methods for accurate formulation of fertilization
recommendations for oil palm plantations in North Sumatra Province for
implementing precision agriculture. The study used geographic information
systems (GIS) and remote sensing technology to achieve this aim. Specifically, the
study's objective is to develop estimates of the nutrient content of oil palm leaves
using geospatial analysis and digital image processing of Landsat-8 data. These
estimates were used to formulate fertilization recommendations for oil palms, and
visualized in a web-GIS application. Methods used include: (1) Oil palm leaf
nutrient classification through machine learning algorithms, such as support vector
machines (SVM), random forests (RF), and classification and regression trees
(CART), both executed in the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. (2) Spatial
analysis using ordinary kriging (OK), universal kriging (UK), inverse distance
weighted (IDW), and radial basis function (RBF) methods. (3) Nutrient balance
assessment using the diagnosis and recommendation integrated system (DRIS). (4)
Leaf nutrient content estimation was through vegetation indices, include:
normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), green normalized difference
vegetation index (GNDVI), soil adjusted vegetation index (SAVI), modified soil
adjusted vegetation index (MSAVI), optimized soil adjusted vegetation index
(OSAVI), enhanced vegetation index (EVI), chlorophyll vegetation index (CVI),
chlorophyll index green (CIG), normalized green red difference index (NGDRI),
green leaf index (GLI), visible atmospherically resistant index (VARI), excess
green (ExG), excess blue (ExB), excess red (ExR), and colour index vegetation
extraction (CIVE). Furthermore, the data were compiled using PostgreSQLPostGIS;
the web development was completed using Lavarel, and the web-GIS
view was developed using Leaflet JS. The study provides a classification using the
random forest (RF) and classification and regression tree (CART) algorithms with
accuracy values over 90%. This geospatial analysis using OK, UK, IDW, and RBF
interpolation methods showed similar results, with an accuracy above 90%. The
DRIS index indicated that the average leaf nutritional requirements were in the
following order: potassium (K), phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N), magnesium (Mg),
and calcium (Ca), with corresponding values of -7.73, 0.03, 1.09, 1.94, and 4.41.
The MSAVI and GNDVI indices demonstrated largest significant correlation
between the vegetation indices and Mg nutrient content, with a value of r>0.8 for
N content and between 0.6 and r>0.8 for P, K, Ca, and Mg nutrient content. The
web-GIS provided a visualization of the database, and fertilizer recommendation
dashboard. This system will assist in optimizing oil palm fertilizer
recommendations in North Sumatra to increase yield and productivity. | en_US |