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ArticlePlant methods2026

Temporal alignment of UAV hyperspectral and phenotype data via autoencoders for predicting nitrogen and nicotine content in cured tobacco leaves.

Mingzheng Zhang, Yan Kuai, Dong Chen, Weimin Guo, Long Zhao, Shuai Yuan, Ruomei Zhao, Qiang Xu, Xiaohe Gu, Tian'en Chen

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Mingzheng ZhangResearch Center of Information Technology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100000, China.
Yan KuaiTobacco Company of Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Tobacco Company, Dali, 671003, Yunnan, China.
Dong ChenResearch Center of Information Technology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100000, China.
Weimin GuoZhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of CNTC, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, China.
Long ZhaoChina Tobacco Shanxi Industrial Co. Ltd, Xian, 710000, China.
Shuai YuanChina Tobacco Shanxi Industrial Co. Ltd, Xian, 710000, China.
Ruomei ZhaoChina Tobacco Shanxi Industrial Co. Ltd, Xian, 710000, China.
Qiang XuZhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of CNTC, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, China. xuq@ztri.com.cn.
Xiaohe GuResearch Center of Information Technology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100000, China. guxh@nercita.org.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7102-1939
Tian'en ChenResearch Center of Information Technology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100000, China. chente@nercita.org.cn.

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China National Tobacco Corporation 110202201051Key Project of Yunnan Provincial Company of China Tobacco 2021530000241026Key Research and Development Program of China Tobacco 110202102041
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Abstract

Post-curing nitrogen content (cNg) and nicotine content (cNt) constitute fundamental chemical attributes that govern the quality of flue-cured tobacco leaves. In this study, we investigate the use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-borne hyperspectral imagery in conjunction with advanced sequence-learning models to obtain canopy-level spectral information and to quantitatively predict cNg and cNt at the field scale. Nevertheless, because field experiments conducted in different growing seasons follow heterogeneous observation schedules, the resulting time series differ in both length and temporal sampling density, which poses a substantial obstacle to the direct deployment of recurrent neural-network models. To mitigate this limitation, we devised three autoencoder-based temporal-alignment schemes to reconcile the temporal dimension of multi-year spectral-phenotypic sequences, namely a fully connected autoencoder (AE

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