Diagnosis of pine wilt disease using remote wireless sensing

Jung, Sang-Kyu and Park, Seong Bean and Shim, Bong Sup and Cheng, Chi-Tsun (2021) Diagnosis of pine wilt disease using remote wireless sensing. PLOS ONE, 16 (9). e0257900. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Pine wilt disease caused by Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is a major tree disease that threatens pine forests worldwide. To diagnose this disease, we developed battery-powered remote sensing devices capable of long-range (LoRa) communication and installed them in pine trees (Pinus densiflora) in Gyeongju and Ulsan, South Korea. Upon analyzing the collected tree sensing signals, which represented stem resistance, we found that the mean absolute deviation (MAD) of the sensing signals was useful for distinguishing between uninfected and infected trees. The MAD of infected trees was greater than that of uninfected trees from August of the year, and in the two-dimensional plane, consisting of the MAD value in July and that in October, the infected and uninfected trees were separated by the first-order boundary line generated using linear discriminant analysis. It was also observed that wood moisture content and precipitation affected MAD. This is the first study to diagnose pine wilt disease using remote sensors attached to trees.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: SCI Archives > Geological Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 10 Apr 2023 04:39
Last Modified: 07 Aug 2024 06:10
URI: http://science.classicopenlibrary.com/id/eprint/1047

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