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Yebhushi Prashanth, Dr.Manna SheelaRani Chetty, "An Adaptive AI-DSS Framework for Real-Time Image Analysis and Decision-Making in Precision Agriculture," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), vol. 74, no. 8, pp. 535-548, 2026. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V74I8P136

Abstract

Environmental variability, pest infestation, and resource inefficiency have become increasingly problematic to agriculture, and on-line decision making using intelligent, adaptive technologies has been called for. This research is suggesting a novel Integrated Artificial Intelligence Decision Support System (AI-DSS) in precision agriculture so as to attain proper context-aware analysis and recommendation across dynamic field conditions. The framework is based on lightweight deep learning frameworks (MobileNetV2, Efficient Net-lite) and a newly designed Adaptive Feature Optimization (AFO) engine, which dynamically reweights convolutional features based on the temporal stability and environment consistency. Mathematically, the AFO mechanism is obtained via a weighted pooling of the instantaneous features of CNN with the temporal averaged prototypes using adaptive attention weights, which filter out transient noises due to illumination variations, occlusion, and sensor noises. The optimized features are fused with data from environmental and soil sensors in a hybrid Decision Support System (DSS) based on rule-based reasoning, Bayesian inference, and temporal tracking to construct explainable and region-specific recommendations to farmers. Experimental evaluations using the experimental data PlantVillage, DeepWeeds, and Fieldstream Sim demonstrate the superiority of the proposed AFO enhanced framework over the baseline CNN classifier in terms of classification accuracy (.95), macro F1 score (.95), and robustness to distortions (.15% improvement). Additionally, when deployed on edge devices like Raspberry Pi 4 and Nvidia Jetson Nano, the system achieves real-time inference latency (<200 ms) and low energy consumption (~520 mJ/frame), which validates the scalability of the system in low-resource settings. In addition, the expert agreement was enhanced with the DSS module integration to 91.4% with 57% less false alarms. The obtained results validate the proposed AI-DSS framework with AFO as a promising solution to cover the distance between accuracy in a controlled lab environment and reliability in the field, providing a strong, explainable, and resource-efficient solution to the digital sustainable agriculture problem. This solution is further being expanded into proactive farm intelligence and climate resilience through multimodal sensing, satellite assisted crops monitoring, and adaptive decision-making-led solutions.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence, Adaptive Feature Optimization (AFO), Decision Support System (DSS), Precision Agriculture, Edge computing, Explainable Artificial Intelligence.

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