Unmanned aerial vehicles as innovative remote sensing platforms for high-resolution infrared imagery to support restoration monitoring in cut-over bogs

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 509-517

  Knoth, Christian ^a   Klein, Birte ^a   Prinz, Torsten ^a   Kleinebecker, Till ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bog vegetation; Colour infrared; Eriophorum; Near infrared; Object based image classification; Sphagnum; UAV

Indexed keywords

BETULA PUBESCENS; ERIOPHORUM; ERIOPHORUM VAGINATUM; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 84878782534     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12024     Document Type: Article

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