General Regression Neural Network and Radial Basis Neural Network for the Estimation of Crop Variables of Lady Finger

Abstract

Estimation of crop variables is necessary for crop type monitoring as well as crop yield forecast. At the present era artificial neural network methodology are widely used to the remote sensing domain for numerous applications like crop yield forecasting and crop type classification. In the present work, two neural network models namely general regression neural network (GRNN) and radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) are used to estimate crop variables: leaf area index (LAI), biomass (BM), plant height (PH) and soil moisture (SM) by using ground based X-band scatterometer data. The both networks are trained and tested with X-band scatterometer data. The performance of the GRNN and RBFNN networks are found that the radial basis approach is more suitable for crop variable estimation in comparison to the GRNN approach. This work presents the applicability of neural network as an estimator and method employed could be useful to estimate the crop variables of other crops. © 2012 Indian Society of Remote Sensing.