Fine-scale perspectives on landscape phenology from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photography

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 248, Issue , 2018, Pages 397-407

  Klosterman, Stephen ^a   Melaas, Eli ^b   Wang, Jon ^b   Martinez, Arturo ^c   Frederick, Sidni ^c   O'Keefe, John ^c   Orwig, David A ^c   Wang, Zhuosen ^d,e,f   Sun, Qingsong ^d   Schaaf, Crystal ^d   Friedl, Mark ^b   Richardson, Andrew D ^a,g,h  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g Northern Arizona University   (United States)

^h NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drone; Forest; Phenology; Satellite remote sensing; Spatial scaling; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AERIAL SURVEY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES INVENTORY; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 85031923434     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.10.015     Document Type: Article

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