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Imaging"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Crop field monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is one of the most important technologies for plant growth control in modern precision agriculture. One of the important and widely used tasks in field monitoring is plant stand counting. The accurate identification of plants in field images provides estimates of plant number per unit area, detects missing seedlings, and predicts crop yield. Current methods are based on the detection of plants in images obtained from UAVs by means of computer vision algorithms and deep learning neural networks. These approaches depend on image spatial resolution and the quality of plant markup. The performance of automatic plant detection may affect the efficiency of downstream analysis of a field cropping pattern. In the present work, a method is presented for detecting the plants of five species in images acquired via a UAV on the basis of image segmentation by deep learning algorithms (convolutional neural networks). Twelve orthomosaics were collected and marked at several sites in Russia to train and test the neural network algorithms. Additionally, 17 existing datasets of various spatial resolutions and markup quality levels from the Roboflow service were used to extend training image sets. Finally, we compared several texture features between manually evaluated and neural-network-estimated plant masks. It was demonstrated that adding images to the training sample (even those of lower resolution and markup quality) improves plant stand counting significantly. The work indicates how the accuracy of plant detection in field images may affect their cropping pattern evaluation by means of texture characteristics. For some of the characteristics (GLCM mean, GLRM long run, GLRM run ratio) the estimates between images marked manually and automatically are close. For others, the differences are large and may lead to erroneous conclusions about the properties of field cropping patterns. 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