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In the urban areas, the use of water to irrigate the green areas must be improved by the use of technology to reach water efficiency. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is the most important indexes to evaluate the vegetation vigour, but the required equipment for its gathering have a high cost. In this paper, we present the use of NDVI and pictures taken with a regular camera to evaluate the status of two groups of plots under different solar exposure. Besides, we study the possibilities to correlate data obtained from regular pictures with NDVI, offering a low-cost option for monitoring plant status. From the 18 evaluated plots, which include 3 different grass combinations, the mean value of NDVI and one picture is taken. Then, we obtain the red, green, and blue histograms of each picture using Matlab software. The histograms were included in Statgraphics to search for correlations between histograms and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index of each plot. The highest correlation was found with the data of red histogram (R2 = 0.58 and high significance level). Finally, the variance of both evaluated variables is analyzed, and we have determined that both variables are useful in determining the solar exposure of studied plots. Significance level was higher in NDVI than with data of the histogram, but both of them have a P-Value lower than 0.05 in the analysis of variance.
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This work has been partially funded by AREA VERDE-MG projects, Projects GO-PDR18-XEROCESPED funded, by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and IMIDRA, by the European Union through the ERANETMED (Euromediterranean Cooperation through ERANET joint activities and beyond) project ERANETMED3-227 SMARTWATIR, and by Conselleria de Educación, Cultura y Deporte with the Subvenciones para la contratación de personal investigador en fase postdoctoral, grant number APOSTD/2019/04.
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Marín, J.F., Parra, L., Lloret, J., Yousfi, S., Mauri, P.V. (2021). Correlation of NDVI with RGB Data to Evaluate the Effects of Solar Exposure on Different Combinations of Ornamental Grass Used in Lawns. In: Peñalver, L., Parra, L. (eds) Industrial IoT Technologies and Applications. Industrial IoT 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 365. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71061-3_13
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