Technical note: Lightweight camera stand for close-to-earth remote sensing

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 675-678

  Booth, D Terrance ^a,c   Cox, Samuel E ^a   Louhaichi, Mounier ^b   Johnson, Douglas E ^b  

^a USDA ARS High Plains Grasslands Research Station   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital photography; Nadir; Photography; Rangeland monitoring; Vertical

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 15944414566     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/1551-5028(2004)057[0675:tnlcsf]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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