“…There are increasing requirements to monitor different crops in modern agriculture [5,6], and it is important to develop a quick, accurate method to acquire information on the area planted, distribution, and yield of lotus. Conventional survey methods are time consuming, slow, inaccurate, and difficult in terms of obtaining data, and they do not meet the management needs of modern agriculture [7,8] For example, China's Third National Land Resource Survey began in 2017 and ended in 2021, taking 5 years to complete; China's Second National Census on Sources of Pollution started at the end of 2017 and ended at the end of 2019, requiring 2 years. In addition, China's grain statistics are reported in a step-bystep manner by village-level statisticians, township statistical institutions, county-level statistical institutions, municipal statistical institutions, and provincial statistical institutions and then delivered to the National Bureau of Statistics, which takes a long time, and the statistician's professional skill , sample selection, and other aspects of each link may cause data distortion [9,10].…”