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Accurate estimates of tree crop orchard age and historical crop area are important to develop yield prediction algorithms, and facilitate improving accuracy in ongoing crop forecasts. This is particularly relevant for the increasingly productive macadamia industry in Australia, where knowledge of tree age, as well as total planted area, are important predictors of productivity, and the area devoted to macadamia orchards is rapidly increasing. We developed a technique to aggregate more than 30 years of historical imagery, generate summary tables from the data, and search multiple combinations of parameters to find the most accurate planting year prediction algorithm. This made use of known planting dates of more than 90 macadamia blocks spread across multiple growing regions. The selected algorithm achieved a planting year mean absolute error of 1.7 years. The algorithm was then applied to all macadamia features in east Australia, as defined in an recent Australian tree crops map, to determine the area planted per year and the total cumulative area of macadamia orchards in Australia. The area estimates were refined by improving the resolution of the mapped macadamia features, by removing non-productive areas based on an optimal vegetation index threshold.

Macadamia Orchard Planting Year and Area Estimation at a National Scale