Prediction of Oleic Acid Content of Rapeseed Using Hyperspectral Technique

In order to detect the oleic acid content of rapeseed quickly and accurately, we propose, in this paper, an artificial BP neural networks based model for predicting oleic acid content by using rapeseed’s hyperspectral information. Four types of spectral features are selected for our investigation, namely multifractal index, sensitive band, trilateral parameters, and spectral index. Both univariate variable and multiple variables are considered as our model input. The result shows that the combined feature has higher precision and better stability than when using a single parameter. An interesting finding shows that the combined feature involving multifractal parameters can significantly improve the model performance. Taking the combined feature {MF-h(0), SB-DR574, SPI-NDSI(R575, R576)} as the model input, the constructed BP (back propagation) neural networks model has the highest precision, with the coefficient of determination (R2) 0.8753, root mean square error (RMSE) 1.0301, and relative error (RE) 1.047%. This result provides some experience for the rapid detection of rapeseed’s oleic acid content.