Design and installation of a camera network across an elevation gradient for habitat assessment

Instrumentation Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-247

  Bater, Christopher W ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   Nielsen, Scott E ^c   McDermid, Greg ^d   Stenhouse, Gordon B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e Foothills Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

image processing; near remote sensing; plant phenology; time lapse processing

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA , CANADA; AUTOMATED DATA; CAMERA NETWORK; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT SCALE; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; ELEVATION GRADIENT; FOREST VEGETATION; GROWING SEASON; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; NEAR REMOTE SENSING; PHENOLOGICAL TRENDS; PLANT PHENOLOGY; PORTABLE SYSTEM; SMALL NETWORKS; TIME LAPSE PROCESSING; VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS; WEB CAMERA;

CAMERAS; DATA VISUALIZATION; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; USER INTERFACES; VEGETATION; VISUALIZATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CAMERAS; DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHENOLOGY; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 79957503315     PISSN: 10739149     EISSN: 15256030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10739149.2011.564700     Document Type: Article

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