Evaluating airborne multispectral digital video to differentiate giant Salvinia from other features in northeast Texas

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2413-2423

  Fletcher, Reginald S ^a   Everitt, James H ^a   Elder, Howard S ^b  

^a KIKA DE LA GARZA SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic weed; Digital videography; Giant salvinia; Invasive weed

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC WEEDS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIGITAL VIDEOGRAPHY; DIGITAL VIDEOS; GIANT SALVINIA; INVASIVE WEED; MULTI-SPECTRAL; REMOTE SENSING TOOLS; STUDY SITES; TERRESTRIAL FEATURES;

MAPS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; VIDEO RECORDING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 80051871881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2102413     Document Type: Article

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