Discrimination of deciduous tree species from time series of unmanned aerial system imagery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Lisein, Jonathan ^a,b   Michez, Adrien ^a   Claessens, Hugues ^a   Lejeune, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTUMN; DECIDUOUS PLANT; DRONE; FLUSHING; GROWING SEASON; IMAGERY; PHENOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RANDOM FOREST; SPECIES; SPRING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREE CROWN; AIRCRAFT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

AIRCRAFT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; HUMANS; PLANT LEAVES; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84957594126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141006     Document Type: Article

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