An automatic counter for aerial images of aggregations of large birds

Bird Study

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 302-308

  Descamps, Stig ^a   Béchet, Arnaud ^b   Descombes, Xavier ^a   Arnaud, Antoine ^b   Zerubia, Josiane ^a  

^a Equipe Projet Ariana   (France)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BIRD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; WADER;

FRANCE; MAURITANIA; TURKEY;

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; PHOENICOPTERIDAE; PHOENICOPTERUS;

EID: 79961099231     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2011.588195     Document Type: Article

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