Field Assessment Strategies: Assessing and Classifying Blight Disease in Wild Blueberry Populations Using Multispectral and Hyperspectral Sensors
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Abstract
(1) Background: Monilinia and Botrytis blight are significant diseases affecting wild blueberry fields, leading to substantial yield losses. Traditional methods for disease assessment rely on destructive sampling, which is labor-intensive and subjective. This study explored the use of multispectral and hyperspectral sensors through simple and machine learning approaches to detect and assess Monilinia and Botrytis blight diseases. (2) Methods: In this study, we adopted two experimental approaches: plot and patch assessment trials. These were conducted using a randomized complete block design at three locations in Nova Scotia. Disease detection was performed using vegetative indices (VIs) and spectral reflectance analysis, with destructive samples also assessed. Analysis of variance, correlations and classification approaches were used in the analysis. (3) Results: Significant spectral differences were observed between healthy and diseased plants, particularly in the near-infrared region (715–1050 nm). Nine significant wavelength bands were identified for blight disease detection. Classifier analysis revealed that support vector machines (SVM) and random forests (RF) outperformed k-nearest neighbors (KNN), achieving an overall accuracy of 96.6% and 76.8% in the broad and severity disease level classifications. (4) Conclusions: Despite some limitations, these findings underscore the potential of remote sensing tools for efficient, non-destructive disease management in wild blueberry fields.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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