Towards the automatic detection of pre-existing termite mounds through UAS and hyperspectral imagery

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Sandino, Juan ^a,b   Wooler, Adam ^a   Gonzalez, Felipe ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral camera; Image segmentation; Machine learning; Pre existing termite mounds; Support vector machines; UAV

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT DETECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; HYPER-SPECTRAL CAMERAS; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERIES; PRE-EXISTING TERMITE MOUNDS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SHAPE ANALYSIS METHOD; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOPTERA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISOPTERA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

EID: 85030114703     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17102196     Document Type: Article

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