University of South Florida

Mitchell Robert Harrah

Abdul Mohaimen Safi

Methods and systems for agricultural monitoring are disclosed. The methods and systems include: projecting, by a light source, a coherent light output on at least a part of a plant material; acquiring, by an imaging device, one or more speckle images based on the coherent light output backscattered by at least the part of the plant material; providing the one or more speckle images to a trained machine learning algorithm; identifying one or more healthy status indications of at least the part of the plant material based on one or more outputs from the trained machine learning algorithm, the one or more outputs corresponding to the one or more speckle images; and providing plant health information based on the healthy status indication. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.

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Tampa, FL, United States of America

Mitchell Robert Harrah