Optimizing the processing of UAV-based thermal imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Maes, Wouter H ^a   Huete, Alfredo R ^b   Steppe, Kathy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drone; Structure from motion; Thermal remote sensing; Thermography; UAV

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; DRONES; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CAMERA CALIBRATION; IMAGE ALIGNMENT; LOW TEMPERATURES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; PRE CALIBRATIONS; STANDARD PROCEDURES; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; THERMAL REMOTE SENSING;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 85019952826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9050476     Document Type: Article

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