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Understanding and accurately predicting within-field spatial variability of crop yield play a key role in site-specific management of crop inputs such as irrigation water and fertilizer for optimized crop production. However, such a task is challenged by the complex interaction between crop growth and environmental and managerial factors, such as climate, soil conditions, tillage, and irrigation. In this paper, we present a novel Spatial-temporal Multi-Task Learning algorithm for within-field crop yield prediction in west Texas from 2001 to 2003. This algorithm integrates multiple heterogeneous data sources to learn different features simultaneously, and to aggregate spatial-temporal features by introducing a weighted regularizer to the loss functions. Our comprehensive experimental results consistently outperform the results of other conventional methods, and suggest a promising approach, which improves the landscape of crop prediction research fields.
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This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under the Grant CNS-1737634.
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Nguyen, L.H. et al. (2019). Spatial-Temporal Multi-Task Learning for Within-Field Cotton Yield Prediction. In: Yang, Q., Zhou, ZH., Gong, Z., Zhang, ML., Huang, SJ. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. PAKDD 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11439. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16148-4_27
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