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Integrating Machine Learning–Driven Crop Yield Prediction and Remote Sensing–Based Environmental Estimation for Intelligent Agricultural Decision Support Systems

Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Spain

Abstract

The rapid transformation of global agriculture under the pressures of climate variability, population growth, soil degradation, and resource scarcity has intensified the demand for intelligent, data-driven decision support systems. Among the most promising responses to these challenges is the integration of machine learning techniques with environmental sensing technologies to enhance crop yield prediction, soil analysis, and agronomic planning. This study presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded, and integrative research article that synthesizes prior work on machine learning–based crop yield forecasting, soil behavior analysis, crop recommendation systems, and related data-driven agricultural intelligence approaches, while also drawing conceptual parallels from advances in remote sensing–based environmental parameter estimation. Drawing strictly on the provided references, the article develops an original conceptual and methodological framework that unifies web-based expert systems, supervised and ensemble learning techniques, climatic parameter modeling, soil classification, and multispectral data interpretation into a cohesive intelligent agricultural decision-making paradigm.

The research builds upon early expert systems for crop management, such as web-based tomato crop advisory platforms, and traces the evolution of predictive analytics in agriculture through regression models, data mining approaches, random forest algorithms, Naïve Bayes classifiers, and ensemble learning strategies such as bagging. It emphasizes how these methods have progressively shifted agricultural analytics from rule-based reasoning toward adaptive, data-centric intelligence capable of learning complex nonlinear relationships between climate, soil, and crop productivity. Furthermore, by incorporating theoretical insights from multispectral remote sensing studies focused on environmental parameter estimation, the article conceptually extends agricultural prediction models to consider spatially continuous environmental variability, even in contexts where in situ data are limited or unavailable.

Methodologically, this article adopts a qualitative–analytical synthesis and conceptual modeling approach rather than empirical experimentation, in line with the constraints of the reference base. The results are presented as a descriptive analytical consolidation of findings across studies, highlighting consistent performance improvements achieved through machine learning, the superiority of ensemble methods in handling uncertainty, and the growing importance of precision agriculture systems that recommend crops and management strategies tailored to localized conditions. The discussion critically evaluates theoretical implications, limitations related to data quality and generalizability, and the challenges of operational deployment in real-world agricultural settings. The article concludes by outlining future research directions centered on integrated intelligent systems, scalable architectures, and the convergence of machine learning, soil science, and remote sensing for sustainable agriculture.

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