Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for monitoring soil erosion in Morocco

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3390-3416

  D'Oleire Oltmanns, Sebastian ^a   Marzolff, Irene ^a   Peter, Klaus Daniel ^b   Ries, Johannes B ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Photogrammetry; SFAP; Soil erosion; UAV

Indexed keywords

DATA GAP; DATA PRODUCTS; DIGITAL SYSTEM; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE SENSING; EXTERIOR ORIENTATION; FIELD SCALE; FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT; FLYING HEIGHTS; GEOREFERENCING; HIGH-PRECISION; LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT; LOG FILE; MULTISCALES; ORTHOIMAGES; PANASONIC; SFAP; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOIL EROSION; STUDY SITES; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

EROSION; FIXED WINGS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONITORING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84870789775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4113390     Document Type: Article

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