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Commonly, more fertilizers have been applied to improve grain yield. There is a need to optimize fertilizers, to reduce environmental pollution, and to increase agricultural production. Maize is the main crop in China, and its ample production is of vital importance to guarantee regional food security. In this study, the RGB and multispectral images, and maize grain yields were collected from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform. To confirm the optimal indices, RGB-based vegetation indices and textural indices, multispectral-based vegetation indices, and crop height were independently applied to build linear regression relationships with maize grain yields. A stepwise regression model (SRM) was applied to select optimal indices. Three machine learning methods including: backpropagation network (BP), random forest (RF), and support vector machine (SVM) and the SRM were separately applied for predicting maize grain yields based on optimal indices. RF achieved the highest accuracy with a coefficient of determination of 0.963 and root mean square error of 0.489 (g\/hundred-grain weight). Through the grey relation analysis, the N was the most correlated indicator, and the optimal ratio of fertilizers N\/P\/K was 2:1:1. 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