Optimizing the timing of unmanned aerial vehicle image acquisition for applied mapping ofwoody vegetation species using feature selection

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Weil, Gilad ^a,b   Lensky, Itamar M ^c   Resheff, Yehezkel S ^a,d   Levin, Noam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Israel Nature and Parks Authority   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d 3P Labs   (Israel)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Mediterranean vegetation; Near surface observations; Unmanned aircraft vehicles; Vegetation species classification

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; IMAGE ACQUISITION; INFRARED DEVICES; MAPPING; PHOTOMAPPING; SITE SELECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME SERIES; TIMING CIRCUITS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEGETATION; VEHICLES;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERIES; MEDITERRANEAN VEGETATION; NEAR SURFACES; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS; VEGETATION SPECIES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 85034733933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9111130     Document Type: Article

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