Image processing and classification procedures for analysis of sub-decimeter imagery acquired with an unmanned aircraft over arid rangelands

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-23

  Laliberte, Andrea ^a   Rango, Albert ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; GIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 79952401328     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.48.1.4     Document Type: Article

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