/challenges-projects/design-challenges/forget-me-not/b/blog/posts/cam-e-lot---round-13---man-vs-ndviIn this post, I will face a difficult challenge: detect whether a plant is flourishing or not. At this moment in time, this feature requires some more experiments and works to make a reliable solution, but I think the solution is promisingNDVIVegetaten-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/forget-me-not/b/blog/posts/cam-e-lot---round-13---man-vs-ndviThu, 02 Oct 2014 18:54:44 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:25bdad77-b34d-4fe8-bff4-7c426d732076DAB1<p>Ah yes, multispectral analysis.&nbsp; Know it well.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The NVDI will get you a reasonable indication of plant health.</p><p>RGB is a reasonable start, especially if you can get the Ir component with the red.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Have you looked into MULTISPEC?&nbsp; It is a free software package from Purdue University.&nbsp; They also have a lot of data and papers on using various light bands for getting good crop data correlation.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Are you going to set up a passive monitoring system or an active one?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You might need to do multiple readings to get a rough data confidence set over various lighting conditions.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Should be a fun project though,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=18778&AppID=100&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">