Detection of dugongs from unmanned aerial vehicles

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2750-2756

  Maire, Frederic ^a   Mejias, Luis ^a,b   Hodgson, Amanda ^c   Duclos, Gwenael ^d  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Wildlife Image Processing Solutions for Environmental Assessments ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEYS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COUNTING PROCESS; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; MARINE SPECIES; REGIONS OF INTEREST;

ALGORITHMS; CONSERVATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84893747808     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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