Development of pattern recognition algorithm for automatic bird detection from unmanned aerial vehicle imagery

Surveying and Land Information Science

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-45

  Abd Elrahman, Amr ^a   Pearlstine, Leonard ^b   Percival, Franklin ^c  

^a The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

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EID: 20444451175     PISSN: 15381242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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