Commercial Off-the-Shelf Digital Cameras on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Multitemporal Monitoring of Vegetation Reflectance and NDVI

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 4878-4886

  Berra, Elias F ^a   Gaulton, Rachel ^a   Barr, Stuart ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; forest; multispectral; phenology; unmanned aerial system

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION; VEHICLES;

FOREST; MULTI-SPECTRAL; PHENOLOGY; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

COMMERCIAL VEHICLES;

CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT; FOREST; LANDSAT; MONITORING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TIME SERIES; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EID: 85021777457     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2655365     Document Type: Article

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