Rapidly responding to landslides and debris flow events using a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Cheng Chien ^a   Chen, Po Li ^a   Matsuo, Tomoya ^a   Chen, Chen Yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Soil and Water Conservation Bureau Taiwan   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

debris flow; disaster management; image analysis; image processing; landslide; remote sensing; unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COSTS; DEBRIS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HURRICANES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DEBRIS FLOWS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; UPDATED INFORMATIONS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84940063344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.9.096016     Document Type: Article

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