Assessment of UAV and ground-based structure from motion with multi-view stereo photogrammetry in a gullied savanna catchment

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Koci, Jack ^a   Jarihani, Ben ^a   Leon, Javier X ^a   Sidle, Roy C ^a   Wilkinson, Scott N ^b   Bartley, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital Elevation Model (DEM); Digital Surface Model (DSM); Gully erosion; Point cloud; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042318037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi6110328     Document Type: Article

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