A grassroots remote sensing toolkit using live coding, smartphones, kites and lightweight drones

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Anderson, K ^a   Griffiths, D ^b   DeBell, L ^a   Hancock, S ^a   Duffy, J P ^a   Shutler, J D ^a   Reinhardt, W J ^a   Griffiths, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b FoAM Kernow   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SMARTPHONE;

AIRCRAFT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SMARTPHONE;

EID: 85015617259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151564     Document Type: Article

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