Evaluating an unmanned aerial vehicle-based approach for assessing habitat extent and condition in fine-scale early successional mountain mosaics

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 132-146

  Gonçalves, João ^a,b   Henriques, Renato ^c   Alves, Paulo ^a   Sousa Silva, Rita ^d   Monteiro, António T ^a   Lomba, Ângela ^a   Marcos, Bruno ^a   Honrado, João ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Habitat types; Image classification; Monitoring; Mountain system; Natura 2000; Random forest; Remote sensing; Unmanned aerial vehicle; Very high spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957442763     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12204     Document Type: Article

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