Cotton Plant Diseases Detection Using Various Classification and Segmentation Techniques – A Survey

Abstract

Cotton is a prominentcash crop that is cultivated throughout the world majorly for its fibrous fruit known as the boll. Botanically named as  Gossypium Hirsutum, cotton is a shrub that belongs to the family Malvaceae. It plays a phenomenal role in the textile industry over and above many other markets too. Like other plants, cotton plants are vulnerable to a variety of pathogenic attacks. This paper describes about the list of  diseases that affects the cotton plant and the various segmentation and classification techniques that are employed to detect those diseases along with the pros and cons, accuracy of each technique.