Development and deployment of an intelligent kite aerial photography platform (iKAPP) for site surveying and image acquisition

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 288-307

  Murray, John C ^a   Neal, Mark J ^b   Labrosse, Frédéric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGERY; AERIAL IMAGES; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; CAPTURE RATE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; INTELLIGENT PLATFORM; MANNED AIRCRAFT; MECHANICAL OPERATIONS; MICRO-UAV; MONITORING SITES; REAL TIME; SITE ACQUISITION; SYSTEM FUNCTIONS;

PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVEYS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873425398     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21448     Document Type: Article

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