Assessing the impacts of canopy openness and flight parameters on detecting a sub-canopy tropical invasive plant using a small unmanned aerial system

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 125, Issue , 2017, Pages 174-183

  Perroy, Ryan L ^a   Sullivan, Timo ^b   Stephenson, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b Big Island Invasive Species Committee   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy openness; Hawai'i; Miconia calvescens; Oblique; Plant detection; UAS

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CANOPY OPENNESS; HAWAI'I; MICONIA CALVESCENS; OBLIQUE; PLANT DETECTIONS;

VEGETATION;

AERIAL SURVEY; AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DETECTION METHOD; DICOTYLEDON; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; OVERSTORY; RAINFOREST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VEGETATION COVER;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

MICONIA; MICONIA CALVESCENS;

EID: 85011382730     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.01.018     Document Type: Article

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