Recent applications of unmanned aerial imagery in natural resource management

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 339-365

  Shahbazi, Mozhdeh ^a   Théau, Jérôme ^a   Ménard, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Centre de géomatique du Québec Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

agriculture; image processing; natural environment; review; UAV; unmanned aerial system

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL DATA; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 84906942515     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2014.926650     Document Type: Article

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