Oil palm tree detection with high resolution multi-spectral satellite imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9749-9774

  Srestasathiern, Panu ^a   Rakwatin, Preesan ^a  

^a GEO INFORMATICS AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Counting; Detection; Oil palm tree; Precision farming

Indexed keywords

CROPS; ERROR DETECTION; FORESTRY; OIL SHALE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES;

COUNTING; DISCRIMINATING POWER; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES; NON-MAXIMAL SUPPRESSIONS; OIL PALM PLANTATIONS; OIL PALM TREE; PRECISION FARMING; VEGETATION INDEX;

PALM OIL;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SATELLITES; THAILAND; VEGETABLE OIL;

EID: 84923530369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6109749     Document Type: Article

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