Acquisition, orthorectification, and object-based classification of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery for rangeland monitoring

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 661-672

  Laliberte, Andrea S ^a   Herrick, Jeffrey E ^b   Rango, Albert ^b   Winters, Craig ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; NATIONAL AIR SPACES; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; RANGELAND MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING APPROACHES;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGERY; IMAGING METHOD; INVENTORY; MONITORING SYSTEM; NATURAL RESOURCE; RANGELAND; SENSOR; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953575878     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.76.6.661     Document Type: Article

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