Applications For Detecting The Rate Of Fruit In Mangrove Plants

Abstract

Mangrove plants are one of the plants that really help aquatic ecosystems between the sea, coast, and land. Mangrove plants provide many ecological, social, and economic benefits. In Indonesia, mangrove plants have 202 species with the same anatomy as other plants in general, consisting of roots, fruits, stems and leaves. Nowadays, the location of mangrove plants in Indonesia has experienced the fastest damage in the world due to conversion to ponds, settlements, industry and plantations. One of the efforts to restore aesthetic value and restore the ecological function of mangrove forest areas is rehabilitation using mangrove fruit. In the rehabilitation process, farmers generally use the manual method with the naked eye to determine fruit ripeness on mangrove plants, so the resulting level of accuracy is not optimal. To overcome this problem, an application is needed that can facilitate farmers in determining fruit maturity in mangrove plants so that it can help determine the maturity level of mangrove fruit. The development of this application utilizes the Deep Learning method as well as the utilization of digital image processing techniques with Grayscaling, Adaptive Threshold, Sharpening and Smoothing techniques. The results of this study are an application that can detect the level of fruit maturity in mangrove plants with an accuracy of 99.11%. With this application, determining the maturity level of fruit on mangrove plants can be easily done.