Supporting the annual international black-faced spoonbill census with a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 170-178

  Liu, Cheng Chien ^a   Chen, Yi Hsin ^a   Wen, Hui Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Black faced spoonbill; Census; Image processing; Mission planning; Taijiang national park; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CENSUS; COST ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOGRAPHY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNMANNED VEHICLE; WATERFOWL;

TAIJIANG NATIONAL PARK; TAINAN; TAIWAN;

AVES; PLATALEA MINOR;

EID: 84945901544     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.10.008     Document Type: Article

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