UAV-based remote sensing for vegetation cover estimation using NDVI imagery and level sets method

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 332-337

  Ghazal, Mohammed ^a   Khalil, Yasmina Al ^a   Hajjdiab, Hassan ^a  

^a ABU DHABI UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring and analysis; Level Sets; UAV Remote Sensing; Vegetation estimation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CAMERAS; ECOLOGY; INFRARED DETECTORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN INFLUENCES; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SETS METHODS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY; UAV REMOTE SENSING;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84963800509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2015.7394354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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