Wildlife multispecies remote sensing using visible and thermal infrared imagery acquired from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 40, Issue 1W4, 2015, Pages 241-248

  Chretien L P ^a   Theau J ^a   Menard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Centre de géomatique du Québec Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multicriteria object based image analysis; Multispecies detection; Unmanned aerial vehicle; Visible and thermal infrared imagery; Wildlife census

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AIRCRAFT DETECTION; ANIMALS; ANTENNAS; INFRARED RADIATION; OBJECT DETECTION; SURVEYS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AERIAL VEHICLE; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTICRITERIUM OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSE; MULTISPECIES DETECTION; OBJECT BASED; OBJECTS-BASED; THERMAL INFRARED IMAGERY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE; VISIBLE AND THERMAL INFRARED IMAGERY; WILDLIFE CENSUS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84974622214     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-W4-241-2015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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