A semi-automated single day image differencing technique to identify animals in aerial imagery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Terletzky, Pat ^a   Ramsey, Robert Douglas ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGERY; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; BOS TAURUS; DOMESTIC HORSE; GRASSLAND; IMAGERY; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AIR; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CATTLE; HORSES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84897974598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085239     Document Type: Article

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