Remote sensing image data and automated analysis to describe marine bird distributions and abundances

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages 2-8

  Groom, Geoff ^a   Stjernholm, Michael ^a   Nielsen, Rasmus Due ^a   Fleetwood, Andrew ^b   Petersen, Ib Krag ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Blom UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerial survey; Environmental impact assessment; Marine birds; Object based image analysis; Offshore wind farms; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; AUTOMATION; DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL IMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FIXED OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ORNITHOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SEABIRD; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; WIND FARM;

AARHUS [DENMARK]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK; IRISH SEA;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 84875271725     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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