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Achieving rapid and accurate identification of pine trees in the early stages of infection is critical for preventing and controlling its spread, particularly for early warning and intervention before the plants exhibit obvious discoloration symptoms. The Plant Senescence Reflectance Index (PSRI) has shown significant potential for the early detection of PWD. However, existing studies often use its default band combinations for calculation, which may fail to fully exploit key wavelength information that is more sensitive to pre-symptomatic PWD stress. Based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hyperspectral imaging data, the present work systematically optimizes and reconstructs the three band parameters of the PSRI to explore an optimal wavelength combination more suitable for the early identification of PWD-infected trees. The results indicate that compared to the original settings of the PSRI, the wavelength combination of 490-666-700 nm performs better in pre-visually identifying infected pine trees in the early stages of infection, achieving a detection accuracy of 82.71%. Our work identifies an optimized PSRI wavelength combination more sensitive to the pre-visual early stage of PWD based on hyperspectral data. This method demonstrates promising potential for pre-visual detection of PWD before visible symptoms appear, which may provide an earlier opportunity for PWD monitoring and intervention.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/plants15172724","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,7]],"date-time":"2026-09-07T09:23:37Z","timestamp":1788773017000},"page":"2724","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Pre-Visual Detection of Pine Wilt Disease Using an Optimized PSRI Derived from Hyperspectral Drone Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-6459-7733","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Run","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"He","family":"Weng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dan","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mingqing","family":"Weng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ziyi","family":"You","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Feiping","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2763-5378","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Songqing","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Ecological Forests, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Mota, M.M., and Vieira, P. 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