An easy and low-cost method for preprocessing and matching small-scale amateur aerial photography for assessing agricultural land use in Burkina Faso

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 273-278

  Wellens, Joost ^a,b   Midekor, Akoly ^c   Traore, Farid ^b   Tychon, Bernard ^b  

^a Association pour la Promotion de l Education et de la Formation à l Etranger APEFE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Observatoire de l'Eau   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Burkina Faso; High resolution; Land use; Low cost; Mosaic

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; GIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND USE PLANNING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT;

BURKINA FASO;

EID: 84879576713     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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