EcoIP: An open source image analysis toolkit to identify different stages of plant phenology for multiple species with pan-tilt-zoom cameras

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages 58-65

  Granados, Joel A ^a   Graham, Eric A ^b   Bonnet, Philippe ^a   Yuen, Eric M ^b   Hamilton, Michael ^c  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Camera; Color transformation; Digital photography; Onset ending date; Phenology

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DIGITAL IMAGE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84876372007     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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