About the Authors

Sang-Kyu Jung

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

skjung@hongik.ac.kr

Affiliation Bio. & Chemical Engineering, Hongik University, Sejong, S. Korea

Seong Bean Park

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Research Laboratory, ECONNBIZ CO., LTD., Sejong, S. Korea

Bong Sup Shim

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Korea Forestry Promotion Institute, Seoul, S. Korea

Competing Interests

One of the authors, Seong Bean Park, authored Korean Patent #10-2233454, “Method and system for forecasting tree disease based on water data”. Seong Bean Park is the Director of Research Laboratory at ECONNBIZ CO., LTD. We confirm that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.