[Study on varieties identification of Kentucky bluegrass using hyperspectral imaging and discriminant analysis]

Hyperspectral images of six varieties of Kentucky bluegrass were acquired using hyperspectral imager (550-1 000 nm) and the leaf spectral properties were extracted. Wilks' lambda stepwise method was used and 9 optimal wavelengths were selected from the original 94 wavelengths and the discriminant models for varieties identification of Kentucky bluegrass were built based on Fisher' s linear discriminant function. The results showed that the Fisher' s linear discriminant model with 9 wavelengths achieved classification accuracies of 100% for both training and testing samples. While for the models with three wavelengths and six wavelengths, classification accuracies reached 83.3% and 96.7% for the testing samples, respectively. It indicates that hyperspectral images combined with discriminant analysis might be a good method to identify the varieties of Kentucky bluegrass.