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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based phenotyping systems provide a high-throughput and powerful tool of capturing crop traits using remote sensing, image processing and machine learning technologies. The goal of this study was to investigate the potential of predicting maturity dates of soybean breeding lines using UAV-based multispectral imagery. Maturity dates of 326 soybean breeding lines were taken using visual ratings from the beginning maturity stage (R7) to full maturity stage (R8), and the aerial multispectral images were taken during this period on 27 August, 14 September and 27 September, 2018. One hundred and thirty features were extracted from the five-band multispectral images. The maturity dates of the soybean lines were predicted and evaluated using partial least square regression (PLSR) models with 10-fold cross-validation. Twenty image features with importance to the estimation were selected and their changing rates between each two of the data collection days were calculated. The best prediction (R2 = 0.81, RMSE = 1.4 days) was made by the PLSR model using image features taken on 14 September and their changing rates between 14 September and 27 September with five components, leading to the conclusion that the UAV-based multispectral imagery is promising and practical in estimating maturity dates of soybean breeding lines.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11182075","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,5]],"date-time":"2019-09-05T03:22:36Z","timestamp":1567653756000},"page":"2075","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":84,"title":["Estimation of the Maturity Date of Soybean Breeding Lines Using UAV-Based Multispectral Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Jing","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Food Systems and Bioengineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA"}]},{"given":"Dennis","family":"Yungbluth","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA"}]},{"given":"Chin Nee","family":"Vong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Food Systems and Bioengineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"Scaboo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7127-1428","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianfeng","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Food Systems and Bioengineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Hincks, J., and The World Is Headed for a Food Security Crisis (2019, February 15). 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