Apparatus for analyzing crop growth information through multiple composite images and method for exploring plant phenotypes using the same

An apparatus for analyzing crop growth information through multiple composite images, the apparatus comprising:

• a thermal imaging camera and a temperature analysis part for analyzing the temperature from images acquired by the thermal imaging camera;
• a hyperspectral camera and a spectrum analysis part for analyzing a range of spectrum from images acquired by the hyperspectral camera;
• a RGB camera and a crop recognition part that recognizes crops distinctly between the background and foreground of the images acquired by the RGB camera;
• an image merging part for generating a single merged image from an image acquired by the thermal imaging camera, an image acquired by the hyperspectral camera and an image acquired by the RGB camera;
• an image compositing part that creates multiple composite images using the image merged from the image merging part;
• a data storage part that stores the image composited by the image compositing part and the merged image merged by the image merging part;
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• an artificial intelligence analysis part that classifies the merged image stored in the data storage part by phenotype of the crop using images stored in the data storage part and builds a database (DB).