Using unmanned aerial vehicles in postfire vegetation survey campaigns through large and heterogeneous areas: Opportunities and challenges

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Fernández Guisuraga, José Manuel ^a   Sanz Ablanedo, Enoc ^a   Suárez Seoane, Susana ^a   Calvo, Leonor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drone; Megafire; Multispectral imagery; Parrot SEQUOIA; UAV; WorldView 2

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIRDS; CAMERAS; DRONES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ROCK MECHANICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVEYS; VEGETATION;

GROUND CONTROL POINTS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MEGAFIRE; MULTI-SPECTRAL CAMERAS; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; PARROT SEQUOIA; VEGETATION REGENERATION; WORLDVIEW-2;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPAIN;

FIRES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPAIN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85042307192     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s18020586     Document Type: Article

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