Autonomous UAVs wildlife detection using thermal imaging, predictive navigation and computer vision

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2016-June, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ward, Sean ^a   Hensler, Jordon ^a   Alsalam, Bilal ^a   Gonzalez, Luis Felipe ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

feral animals remote Piloted Aircraft Systems; Remote sensing; Wildlife detection

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; INFRARED IMAGING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; BEHAVIORAL DYNAMICS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES; HAVERSINE FORMULAS; ONBOARD COMPUTERS; PREDICTIVE DYNAMICS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING;

ANIMALS;

EID: 84978524287     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2016.7500671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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