Design considerations for remote sensing payloads on inexpensive unmanned autonomous aerial vehicles

Surveying and Land Information Science

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 131-137

  Smith, Scot ^a,b   Szantoi, Zoltan ^a,b   Perry, John ^a,b   Percival, Franklin ^b   Evers, Brandon ^c  

^a Center for Latin American Studies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital single lens reflex; Remote sensing; Unmanned automous vehicle

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALTITUDE; DIGITAL IMAGE; GEODESY; GEODETIC DATUM; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; NAVIGATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DATA;

AVES; BISON;

EID: 79251514987     PISSN: 15381242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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