Sensing rice drought stress is crucial for agriculture, and chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChlF) is often used. However, existing techniques usually rely on defined feature points on the OJIP induction curve, which ignores the rich physiological information in the entire curve. Independent Component Analysis (ICA) can effectively preserve independent features, making it suitable for capturing drought-induced physiological changes. This study applies ICA and Support Vector Machine (SVM) to classify drought levels using the entire OJIP curve. The results show that the 20-dimensional ChlF features obtained by ICA provide superior classification performance, with Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-score, and Kappa coefficient improving by 18.15%, 0.18, 0.17, 0.17, and 0.22, respectively, compared to the entire curve. This work provides a rice drought stress levels determination method and highlights the importance of applying dimension reduction methods for ChlF analysis. This work is expected to enhance stress detection using ChlF.

Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering University of Missouri Columbia MO 65211 USA

Key Laboratory of Advanced Process Control for Light Industry Ministry of Education Jiangnan University 214122 Wuxi China

School of Electrical Engineering and Automation Changshu Institute of Technology 215500 Changshu China

Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS Moscow Russia

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