Detecting advanced stages of winter wheat yellow rust and aphid infection using RapidEye data in North China Plain

Yellow rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici) and aphid (Sitobion avenae F.) are two major biotic factors threatening winter wheat growth in the main growing region in northern China. The goal of this study was to develop a remote sensing based approach to reliably detect and discriminate yellow rust and aphid infection. The study was conducted in the North China Plain in 2017 based on RapidEye satellite images using three supervised...