UAV-Based AI-Driven Multimodal Framework for Plant Health Monitoring for Green Campuses
摘要
Urban smart gardening for monitoring plant health contributes toward Sustainable Development Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities). It demands real-world applicability in precision gardening, campus monitoring, and scalable smart agriculture. To use smart technologies for sustainable development, this study presents an AI-driven smart gardening system tailored for the Green Nirma Campus using UAV-based multispectral and RGB imaging. In contrast to earlier studies that concentrated on large-scale farming or disease detection, this work combines deep learning with multimodal data for intelligent urban gardening. The proposed approach used an 18-band spectrometer (410–940 nm) and RGB photos taken by a UAV to gather detailed physiological and image data from a variety of plant species. Spectral data has been processed using an Autoencoder-CNN architecture, achieving a classification accuracy of 98% between healthy and unhealthy plants. The RGB images integrated with spectral features through a dual-branch multimodal neural network are analysed using a frozen ResNet18 model, which achieved 99.2% accuracy. The novelty of this work lies in an integrated pipeline that involves a real-time data collection strategy via drones, fusion of spectral and image modalities, and its application in urban smart gardening, contributing toward scalable smart agriculture.