UAV hyperspectral and lidar data and their fusion for arid and semi-arid land vegetation monitoring

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 20-33

  Sankey, Temuulen T ^a   McVay, Jason ^a   Swetnam, Tyson L ^b   McClaran, Mitchel P ^b   Heilman, Philip ^c   Nichols, Mary ^c  

^a Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3D modeling; high resolution DEM; lidar; species identification; UAV; vegetation monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041340030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rse2.44     Document Type: Article

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