Precision Forestry: Trees Counting in Urban Areas Using Visible Imagery based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 16-21

  Hassaan, Omair ^a   Nasir, Ahmad Kamal ^a   Roth, Hubert ^a   Khan, M Fakhir ^b  

^a LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Precision Forestry; Robotics; UAV; Vision

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; DEFORESTATION; ROBOTICS; TIMBER; VISION;

AERIAL IMAGERY; AERIAL IMAGES; FOREST DEGRADATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; NUMBER OF TREES; RGB CAMERAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VISIBLE IMAGERY;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84994762062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24058963     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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