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To develop a fast and accurate method of extraction of information on sunflower lodging, this study improves the inputs to SegNet and U-Net to render them suitable for multi-band image processing. Random forest and two improved deep learning methods are combined with RGB, RGB + NIR, RGB + red-edge, and RGB + NIR + red-edge bands of multi-spectral images captured by a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to construct 12 models to extract information on sunflower lodging. These models are then combined with the method used to ignore edge-related information to predict sunflower lodging. The results of experiments show that the deep learning methods were superior to the random forest method in terms of the obtained lodging information and accuracy. The predictive accuracy of the model constructed by using a combination of SegNet and RGB + NIR had the highest overall accuracy of 88.23%. Adding NIR to RGB improved the accuracy of extraction of the lodging information whereas adding red-edge reduced it. An overlay analysis of the results for the lodging area shows that the extraction error was mainly caused by the failure of the model to recognize lodging in mixed areas and low-coverage areas. 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